On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:07:16AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: [...] > The problem is, at home, on our debian box, she runs > Kmail. When she clicks on the inbox it takes forever to bring in all the > messages, and if she clicks on another folder NOT in her inbox, next time she > goes back, it starts over again with zero messages, retrieves them all, and > it takes forever. Part of the problem is people that send monster ( OUTLOOK) > messages with megabyte attachments.. I don't use kmail, but AIUI, it should only be loading the email _headers_ and not the entire emails. It should only load the email when she tries to view it. That said, if there are a whole lot of emails, it could still take a few seconds to load all the headers. But unless we're talking thousands of emails and a slow connection, it should still only take a few seconds. Iwould look at kmail and see whether it's pulling only headers or the entire emails. > What can I do? I'm not that familiar with IMAP, would disconnected IMAP be > better? disconnected IMAP might help because it would have a local copy to load, speeding the process. But I suspect that's not really the problem. BTW, what do you mean by "forever? A
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