ever slowing access to large mail folders (solved with maildir trick)

[Uqbar]

Binary package hint: evolution

When folders approach 2+GB data and 15+K messages, all activities which involve folders access become slower and slower,
taking tens of seconds also during message retrieval with POP3.
The larger the folder content, the slower the access.
I argued it was because of folder implementation as mbox files.
Thus I applied a "trick" to store all email in maildir format (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+question/56412)
and it's now working great (with XFS file system).
There should be a way to define folders are maildirs "natively" (that is with no trick) if not eliminating the mbox format completely.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The ubuntu team doesn't have the ressources to work on this specific issue but it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Any news on this ? are you still facing the issue? did you sent the report upstream? may you tell us the bug number there? thanks.

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

Sorry.
That trick shown some drawbacks.
As I had to use email for every day work, I moved to KMail and that fixed the problem.
I'm not interested in this topic any more.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.