[ale] Kmail Question

[Chris Fowler]

Evolution

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 10:15, Terry Lee Tucker wrote:
> Good Morning:
> 
> I'm trying to use KMail as my email client (Version: KMail 1.4.1 (Using KDE 
> 3.0.0-10). I like the filtering capability built in to KMail; however, when 
> popping email of my internal mail server, it is dreadfully slow. Worse than 
> that, the entire application stops responding to ALL events during the 
> process. In fact, while typing this very message, I was suspended in time for 
> one minute while KMail picked up two small messages from the server. I'm not 
> using any encryption while popping off mail. I have a number of filters 
> defined and I realize that this will slow the application down. What I don't 
> understand is why the entire application locks up during this process. Surely 
> this process forks when undertaking the pop operation. Is there anything I 
> can do to prevent this or am I forced to find another email client?
> 
> Thanks for any advice...