[Users] Slow opening of large folders / folder "reload"

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 23:41:30 CET 2012


Hey there,

Romain wrote:

> > I've been using claws for a few months now and i like it a lot.
> > I'm currently using 3.8.0 on Fedora 16 against my company's
> > Zimbra LDAP.
> >
> > The problem i have is that sometimes -- can't really pinpoint why
> > -- when opening large folders (e.g. > 5000 messages), claws takes
> > a very long time to open the folder, with a progress bar in the
> > bottom that seems to be re-reading every message from that folder
> > (see attached screenshot).
> >
> > That operation blocks any mail sending/receiving while that
> > progress bar is in progress.
> > Is there something i have mis-configured ?
> >
> > Killing & relaunching claws, and clicking on the folder it
> > couldn't open is generally instantaneous after restarting claws.
> > It does not always occur on the same folder, nor does it happen
> > every time, but it's more likely to happen if the folder is large.

> No takers ?

I don't have any folders as big as yours. My biggest one has 2500
messages, and it takes probably less than half a second to open. Do
you have any filters or processing that run when the folder is opened?

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.



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