Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions

[Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>]

On Saturday 07 July 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> I've been using Kmail for some time but am running into a couple
> of issues.   I'm not sure if they're actually Kmail issues and if
> they're actually outside the Kmail program.
>
> First, using spamassassin, Kmail freezes every time it checks my
> mail.  If I have only a few messages, it might freeze for a few
> seconds.  If I have a lot of messages, it might take 30 or 45
> seconds before the program starts responding again.  If I'm in
> the middle of, say, typing an email, the key presses are stored
> and processed once the program starts responding again. If I turn
> off email processing through spamassassin, the issue either goes
> away or the freeze is so quick as to be unnoticeable.  I can
> understand it taking time to process incoming email but I don't
> understand why it can't be done in the background on a modern
> system.  Is this normal behavior or is there an issue with either
> Kmail or spamassassin?

This is a very long-standing KDE bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4151

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Peter
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