kmail and evolution

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.com
Thu Apr 3 10:38:57 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 09:20 +0100, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Due to evolution still refusing to download emails (see
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-March/msg01476.html for
> details - it's still showing the same behaviour), I'm having to move over to
> kmail. I'd rather not though...
> 
> kmail seems incredibly slow and has great problems importing all of my
> evolution bits and pieces (like email and address books) unless I tell it to
> import just the mbox folders - it reaches my main folder (which evolution
> seems to store the junk email in as well as my own!), gets to 99% import and
> hangs. I can import the mbox but not everything else.
> 
> I know kde apps tend to be slower at booting up but are fine running, but
> kmail seems sluggish even when running.
> 
> I have considered claws and thunderbird, but claws's spam handling system
> sucks and thunderbird won't import my evolution folders.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on getting evolution working again or how to get
> kmail to work at something approximating a usable speed?

You tried also to remove the .gconf/apps/evolution dir and see if that
helps?

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Mike Chambers
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