21 Jan
2005
21 Jan
'05
11:19 p.m.
Well, I seem to have tracked down what's going on with Evolution and Dovecot.
It seems that Evolution has defaulted to checked for spam server side using Spamd on Fedora Core 3 without downloading the mail. It seems that spamd is the culprit in all this as it's trying to analyze pop3 mail without simply downloading all the new mail.
I turned off the spam checking option in evolution and the crawling (read 5-10 min) email downloads stopped. I guess I should have noticed that this happened when I upgraded from Fedora Core 2 to 3, but we upgraded dovecot around the same time.
While it still shouldn't be taking 10 min to download email (1 min a mail), at least I know what's going on now.
Michael