Re: Err... Stupid KMail

Thorsten Schnebeck <[email protected]> (by way of Thorsten Schnebeck <[email protected]>)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Organization IFW
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 15 September 2003 07:20, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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> On Sunday 14 September 2003 07:13, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> > filters, etc.). So far, I still prefer KMail in some
> > respects, although searching is so much faster it isn't funny
> > -- I can search 27,000+ message subjects in about three
> > seconds vs. about three to five minutes.
>
> a subject search in a folder with 6000+ messages which matches
> 1000+ of those messages takes ~4 seconds (wall clock) on my PII
> 400. of course, this is a local maildir, and it has 4.5 times
> fewer emails than the one you searched through, but to inflate
> 4 seconds to 3-5 minutes is pretty crazy indeed. are you using
> IMAP? i know that kmail's IMAP isn't the best, though hopefully
> 3.2 will help address some of those issues (anyone using IMAP
> w/KMail from HEAD on this list?).

yep :-)

IMAP folder with 12000 mails,
search by subject: 470 hits, 9 seconds

(Athlon 1GHZ, connected to server via 100MBit Ethernet.)

Bye

  Thorsten


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