On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 08:35 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > Tim wrote: > > Tim: > >>> That's easy: Fetch a scad of mail when you have filters set, versus > >>> fetch a scad of mail when you don't have any filters set. > >>> > >>> Unmolested, they romp into the inbox very quickly. When filtering > >>> puts its fingers in, it's far worse than fetching mail over dial-up. > > > > James Wilkinson: > >> That sort of filtering speed (I’m guessing maybe a couple of seconds > >> per message on emails generally smaller than, say, 128 KB) makes me > >> suspect that it’s passing emails through SpamAssassin – it sounds like > >> the right speed for SpamAssassin, and there’s an > >> evolution-spamassassin package to enable it. > > > > Nup, not doing that here. I even disable the Evolution plugins that I'm > > not using. > > > > The filtering was just a few filters for mailing lists which look for a > > matching "reply-to" header. Each filter was just the match rule, > > followed by a stop processing instruction. With about two filters (e.g. > > for two mailing lists), it's reasonable. With about three, it's getting > > annoying. Try and filter from about eight different lists, and it's far > > too slow to put up with. > > > > I've seen a few other similar comments about the slowness of filtering > > over the years. > > > > I will second that this has been an issue for some time. I had this > issue when we moved to Exchange Server a few years ago. I found a way > around using Evolution and have not looked back. > > When downloading mail it would take forever to get the mail and sort it > out using the OWA interface (Only Option). Using SpamAssasin just made > it worse. > > -- > Robin Laing > I did this again today forgetting I had tried this once before. Filtering is fast. What is slow is using sppamassassin to analyze the mail. Filtering 100 messages takes about 10 seconds. -- ======================================================================= Look at it this way: Your wife's spending $280 a month on meditation lessons to forget $26,000 of college education. And you're still drinking ordinary scotch? ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines