[Evolution] Reading email using search folders could be faster

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 11:41 +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (Please CC me, not subscribed)
> 
> I'm using Evolution for quite some time with two accounts ( EWS, IMAP
> ) and a couple of search folders. One of them holds all the unread
> email threads except a couple of folders. All the folders included in
> there are set to have their emails downloaded for offline use.
> 
> Whenever I switch to a search folder and select an email ( which
> should already be downloaded offline ) it lags for a couple of
> seconds. In the status bar I see both 'Retrieving message XYZ...' and
> 'Refreshing folder Search Folders: Unread....'.
> 
> Until the folder refresh is done, the message is not displayed, even
> though it's available offline. Accessing the same messages using the
> 'pyhsical' folder linked to the accout is very fast. So it looks to me
> like reading emali through search folders is needlessly slow.
> 
> I would welcome any suggestions on how to make my workflow faster, and
> I can file a bug report if needed.

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