[Evolution-users] Is this normal?

[Pete Biggs]

> 
> > You seem to have had problems with the MH folders for about a year now.
> > Do you actually *need* them to be MH format?  It might help if you
> > converted them to Maildir format using something like the 'mh2maildir'
> > script (make sure you keep a backup of the original directories
> > though). Doing this will also indicate any issues with the MH files and
> > possibly correct the issues as well as it does the conversion.
> 
> I tried to convert them to MailDir. The mh2maildir script reported
> many "errors" and failed to convert about 10% of the messages.

Do you think that the errors reported by mh2maildir might also be the
same problems that Evolution is having issues with?

You can also do the conversion with procmail - see 

   https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-158200-view-next.html

> 
> I like that MH has files directly in each folder. It seems that
> MailDir puts Inbox, Junk, and Trash subfolders in every folder. I
> haven't searched for a way around that because the conversion script
> basically didn't work.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by having "files directly in
each folder" - Maildir has a single message per file format. Also I
don't think there is a specific requirement to have those subfolders -
it might be just how Evolution displays it's virtual folders, although
I think Inbox is a standard name for mail in the top level Maildir
directory. (I have a 'Junk' folder in my local Maildir store on
Evolution, but there is no corresponding directory on the disk.)

> 
> 
> I think my router is IPv6 enabled. I don't know about the Spectrum
> router ahead of it, and AFAIK I can't log in to it.

Disable IPv6 on your machine to see if it makes a difference to the
IMAP speed.

> 
> > Finally, if they are timeout issues, then you may need to wait
> > longer -
> > timeouts are sometimes of the order of 5, 10, 15 minutes.
> 
> I don't see symptoms of network delays and timeouts, unless they're
> limited to the IMAP port — which seems unlikely.
> 
> 

The timeout that others have seen is because the system uses IPv6 by
default and it takes a while for it realise that the packets aren't
getting through, it then falls back to IPv4 and it works. It may be
something specific to the route to the IMAP server.

P.