[Dovecot] Evolution Slowness Fix

[Brad]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:19:25PM -0600, Michael David Joy wrote:
> 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

Sounds like you have something seriously mis-configured with your
system (DNS). It shouldn't even take 1 min per e-mail.