On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:27, Scot L. Harris wrote: >On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:33, D. D. Brierton wrote: >> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 07:15 -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote: >> > How often is evolution set to check for new mail? I've observed >> > that evolution is painfully slow whenever it's doing its new >> > mail check. In my case it's looking at two IMAP accounts and >> > one Exchange account. >> >> The painful slowness is caused by the spam filtering, in >> particular the "Include remote tests" option. Go to: >> >> Tools -> Settings -> Mail Preferences -> Junk >> >> and try disabling "Include remote tests" and see if that helps. If >> it is still too slow then try tweaking your spamassassin setup >> further. If it's still too slow disable spam filtering altogether >> and look into server side solutions. The slowness is caused by >> spamassassin, not evolution. > >This is particularly true if you are trying to run every message > through spamassassin. I still use a filter to run spamassassin, > not the built in version. This allows me to filter things such as > mailing lists and such prior to invoking spamassassin so only a > small percentage of my email incurs the cost of running > spamassassin on it. > >And I don't use any of the network checks. Just bayes and selected > rule sets. And where would one go to edit the file that controls this in a kde environment Scot? I'd like to see if I can speed it up, and reduce its penchant for grabbing every cpu cycle it can get. With a mail fetch run every 15 minutes, this machine spends 20% of its time with the keyboard very effectively locked out. This didn't happen till I started using sa with kmail. >-- >Scot L. Harris >webid@xxxxxxxxxx > >Bipolar, adj.: > Refers to someone who has homes in Nome, Alaska, and Buffalo, New > York. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.33% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
