[Evolution-users] Evolution spends a lot of time synchronizing old messages with Yahoo

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 21:34 +0200, rsbrux via evolution-users wrote:
> The likely cause of my recent debacle with Evolution is my lack of
> patience.  
> Evolution often takes more than an hour
> > Downloading new messages for offline mode in "Yahoo:INBOX"
> when there are generally less than a dozen new, changed or deleted
> messages in the account.
> On one such occasion when I wanted to leave home, I forced shutdown of
> the computer, which presumably corrupted Evolution's data store.

Very unlikely. I regularly shutdown and reboot with no ill effects at
all.

> Why does Evolution need so much time to synchronize a small number of
> changes?

It doesn't. I have the entire traffic of this mailing list (several
thousand messages) on my mail server (Gmail), accessed via IMAP, and
new messages sync almost instantly.

> How can I prevent this?

To start with, you need to say what kind of account this is (POP, IMAP,
IMAP, Exchange, ...) and what kind of Internet connection you have. It
might be helpful to run Evolution with debugging enabled, but leave
that to a later stage.

poc