On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 16:41 +0100, Douglas Furlong wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 11:32 -0400, Jim Dossey wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is the right list for this or not. Maybe it > > should be in the FC3 list. I'm having the same problem in FC2 and > > FC3. > > > > When using Evolution 2.0 to read a POP3 mail account, it downloads the > > messages very slowly. When I used Evo 1.4 it is quite fast. Evo 2.0 > > takes about 10 times a long as 1.4 did. I ran Ethereal to see what > > was going on and it showed quite a bit of DNS traffic between each > > downloaded message. I tried this using both an external DNS server > > and running named on the local machine (and updating resolv.conf). > Evolution 2.0 comes with Spamassasin tied in to try and reduce the > amount of spam you get. > > If you go to the account settings you can cancel the spam checking, but > what may be ideal is if you can disable remote checking. Thanks, that was the problem.