[26783] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.4.23: evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Tue Mar 28 17:47:56 2006
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From: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:42:01 -0500
To: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@mit.edu>
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Richard,
Is your home Athena workstation accessing AFS through a NAT router?
Side note: I want to make sure I'm understanding what you mean by
using evolution "over a network". You mean you have an Athena system
at your home and you run evolution locally on that system, with your
home directory on campus in AFS, and you are configured for IMAP.
Remotely logging into an on-campus system and running evolution in a
window remotely via X is NOT what you mean, right?
-wdc
On Mar 26, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Richard J. Barbalace wrote:
> System name: starbase.mit.edu
> Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.4.23 (with mkserv)
> Display type: m
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: vtwm.gamma
>
> 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.
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> [Please replace this line with your information.]
