[Users] Annoying scan of already read emails

Andrej Kacian ticho at claws-mail.org
Mon Aug 12 22:27:58 CEST 2019


On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:42:43 -0300
Ethy H. Brito wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> My INBOX (and other folders) has 6000+ emails and from time to time, out of the
> blue, CM stats to scan it all.
> Don't know if this helps, but I do not exit CM every day. It stays running for
> weeks some times.
> 
> It takes several dozens of minutes and I just can do anything else but wait.
> Killing CM alleviates the problem for a few minutes and since I reenter INBOX
> it starts to scan it again.
> 
> Is there an option to tell it to scan only unread messages?
> Does this make any sense to you guys?

CM keeps a cache of scanned messages, so it shouldn't rescan them over
and over everytime you open a folder. Looks like in your case, the
cache is not working, though.

Is this a local mailbox (MH format in Claws Mail), or IMAP?

Regards,
-- 
Andrej
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