Evolution vs Kmail/Kontack Observation

[Chadley Wilson <chadley pinteq co za>]

Hi guys,

I recently switched back to fedora from suse9.1

I decided to give good old gnome a bash, but using evolution I noticed that 
mail retrieving took quite a long time. Well what can you expect from a super 
busy list.
The question is why when I switched back to KDE does Kmail retrieve mail so 
much faster. 
Going out on a limb here I suppose it has some thing to do with the when and 
how it sorts mail. I have the same filters in place on kmail as on evolution 
and am subscribed to 16 mailing lists and 6 news groups.

So the filter I have in place are definatly not the issue, and since kmail is 
noticabley faster that eliminate the fact that my server could be slow or 
busy.

In my test which I conducted today I set evolution (currently my default) to 
leave messages on the server. 
Tonight I backup my evolution folder, I then configured my account in 
evolution and kmail both set to leave messages on the server.

Evolution downloaded the 1500 odd emails in 5 minutes while kmail downloaded 
the same (give or take about 10 mails) in 30 seconds.

Is this a common observation or is there something that is not functioning 
correctly in my evolution setup?

TIA

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