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

[Pete Biggs]

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.

What do you mean by "forced shutdown"?  Did you just turn the computer
off without doing a full OS shutdown?

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

It shouldn't - and doesn't for everyone else (there would be a lot more
noise here if it were the case!)

> How can I prevent this?

How do you access the mail? IMAP? POP?

If you turn off the downloading of all messages does it behave?

Ultimately you will need to run debugging to see where the system is
slowing down: see the information at
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Debugging 

P.