Re: Setting KMail's To Do flag
I have a very similar setup myself, with the same problem.
(Sarger/postfix/courier-imap mail server and KDE 3.5/Sid desktop on the same
LAN.)
In 3.4, I had the same problem but according to top kio_imap was the biggest
process. In 3.5 it seems to be kmail. The resulting symptoms are the same,
however. Auto-checking email every 5 minutes means that every 5 minutes my
computer (Athlon 2100+, so not a pushover) starts going all herky jerky.
KMail is barely usable, as scrolling skips all over the place in spurts.
I can't use normal IMAP, because last I heard normal IMAP does not support
filtering of emails from the IMAP inbox to another IMAP folder. It only does
that with disconnected IMAP.
This has been a problem for a long time. I do not know what the cause or
solution is, sadly, but if anyone else knows I'd love to find out.
On Thursday 16 March 2006 15:49, Steven Ihde wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope someone can suggest a solution to my problem. I want to maintain a
> cached copy of email on my laptop disk so I can:
>
> 1. Set KMail's "To Do" flag (or something similar) while at work, and then
> 2. deal with mails marked "To Do" while I'm on the train with no net
> connectivity.
>
> Using KMail's disconnected IMAP seems like it should work. There's just
> one problem -- checking for new mail is so slow it's unusable. It takes
> more than five minutes to do one check for mail -- every time. It spends
> most of the time in the "uploading status of messages" phase. I have about
> 16000 messages in the folder -- should I expect dimap to perform well in
> this situation? Using KMail's regular imap, a check for new mail on the
> same folder is virtually instantaneous.
>
> I also tried using the script "offlineimap" to maintain a cache on the
> laptop disk. But the problem here is that KMail doesn't propagate the "To
> Do" flag (or any other flags except the basic read/unread status AFAICT) to
> the server, so the cached copy doesn't get the flag status. :-( Is there
> a way to force KMail to store the flags on the server instead of in its
> cached copy of the headers?
>
> BTW, the IMAP server is Courier running on a sarge box, and is under my
> control if it makes any difference.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
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