> > It may depend on your IMAP server and particular configuration options > > but I wouldn't count on Evolution performing better than Thunderbird. > > > > The last time I used Evolution was on Fedora 27 (so it was a recent > > build) on a test computer with a nice old 5,200 RPM hard drive. I asked > > it to load a folder of 12,000 messages and it was SO SLOW I had to abort > > and reran it with libeatmydata because Evolution was sending a > > continuous stream of fsync calls for sqlite databases. > > I assume that by "load a folder" you're referring to indexing a folder > of previously unseen messages. This is an operation you will only > rarely perform in real life, so I'm not sure how relevant the test is. > I have several IMAP folders that are much larger than this (e.g. the > Evolution list of over 17,000 messages or the Fedora Users list of over > 40,000) and notice no performance problem at all. I'm also on Fedora 27 > and my /home is on a conventional 7200rpm drive. > Yeah, there are problems with Evolution, but I've never really classed "performance" as being one of them.
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