[26775] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.4.23: evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Sun Mar 26 16:10:06 2006
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:09:51 -0500
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@mit.edu>
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Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.4.23 (with mkserv)
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What were you trying to do?
Delete mail
What's wrong:
Evolution hangs when used over a network when it must handle
too many messages. This makes it impossible to read mail, move messages,
or delete messages to get to a state where it can handle mail again.
My inbox is over 90% full with about 1500 messages. I use evolution
from an Athena workstation at home. From campus, generally evolution
behaves only sluggishly when dealing with a large inbox; it can take a
minute to display a new message. Over a network, this does not scale.
As a test, I started evolution, waited for it to load (a few minutes),
and deleted a single message; it hung for two hours before I killed
the process. I suspect there is some caching problem happening, where
it tries to load every message in a mailbox and fails, and repeats
endlessly.
This is not simply a network problem. Webmail has no problem handling
my inbox, although I cannot use it to move messages into my mh folders
for longer term storage.
What should have happened:
Default mail readers should be able to handle mail.
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