Evolution 1.5 Q's

[Jack Bowling]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:20:19PM +0800, Colin Charles wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 08:43, Paul wrote:
> 
> > My first question is why does it alway die horribly on the first
> > download at email number 12 and then work after that (usually) and why
> > is it so bloody slow? 600 messages takes well over 45 minutes to
> > download on a UK broadband connection (512K line) and gnome-system-
> > monitor shows it hogging upto 99% CPU time.
> 
> Spamassassin is running.

Likely, but it should be piped through spamd/spamc which is blindingly fast
in comparison to running spamassassin.rc

> > I have the internal spam trap killed and am only using SA 2.63. Sylpheed
> > sucks down the same number of emails in under 5 mins (not checked using
> > SA though - not sure how to set that up)
> 
> If you get Sylpheed to run even on your local SA2.63, it will take that
> long and eat up your CPU time.

I would first check if Evo is using spamd/spamc and if not ask here how to
set that up if it is possible. And then if you are still getting slowdowns, 
I would disable all but local dns lookups to see if that makes a difference 
(add the -L switch to line 24 of /etc/rc.d/init.d/spammassain).

Another quite useful proggy I just installed is called ecncheck which you
can look for on freshmeat.net. It will check the connection between you and
a destination and let you know if it supports ECN, if it fails gracefully,
etc. I pointed it at my DNS servers and found that one of them was refusing
all connections at the time...so I moved it to the bottom of the resolver
pile. Lookups have been quite sprightly ever since.

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Jack Bowling
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