Nils Kassube wrote:
On Sunday 11 June 2006 23:04, René Matthäi wrote:
Hi,
are you experiencing the same problem that with about 20 mailing lists KMail slows the system down regularly? Especially when you set the maximum time messages are kept in a folder is set to say 30 days?
It's a fact that I suffer great performance problems with my about 20 mailing lists, not speaking about turning on the included anti-spam filter mechanism using spamassassin (and bogofilter), which really pisses me off.
For me there is no problem with Kmail alone, but with spamassassin checking mail the system is really slow. Therefore I start kmail with "nice -10". I have an icon for kmail on my desktop and I changed the properties of this icon. On the tab for application the command is now
nice -10 kmail -caption "%c" %i %m
Now it takes some seconds longer until I can read mails, but until then the system is still usable for other things.
I noticed something similar once when I was trying kmail, and selected all the spam filter options available out of curiosity. While downloading the messages from my pop3 mailbox the machine ground to a halt while kmail frantically consumed memory and cpu. I had to manually kill kmail, which was then unable to find any messages next time it was started. That incident scared me away from kmail, and I went back to the mozilla solution (currently thunderbird), the only one that has worked reliably for me over the past dozen years. (don't get me started on evolution) Another plus for users of the netscape/mozilla/seakmonkey/thunderbird mail clients is that it's nice to be able to access your emails with normal unix text tools and/or mail clients. In any case, it's much better to do the spam filtering at the smtp server. I'd rather save my desktop cpu cycles for gaming and multimedia, not grunt work better done at the server. Joe