[Evolution] Bug#378236: evolution-exchange: scans ALL public folders on startup -- everytime

[Heikki Henriksen]

severity 378236 important
thanks

fre, 14,.07.2006 kl. 16.05 +0200, skrev Hanno G. Steinke:
> At startup, all public folders will be scanned. This tree can become
> quite large (I don't know how large ours is, I killed evolution after
> it had filled 4GB of diskspace with subfolders...) this takes hours,
> propably days before you can get a chance to use the account and
> unsubscribe from anything (provided your disk an system memory
> is huge enough).
> This happens in a migrated account (from 2.4) or in a newly created
> account in all Versions 2.6.* and above.
> It is especially useless if you are on a laptop and just wanted to
> quickly check your email over an expensive wireless link... thank
> you very much.
> There is obviously the need for a configuration variable to block
> descending into any folder hierarchy on startup, to not check any
> folders, to unsubscribe from anything except the absolute top
> level directory during account setup, or what ever.
> In meantime, I urgently need a way to re-downgrade back to 2.4, please.

I agree that this is an extremely annoying bug for some people, but it
doesn't render the package totally useless and large public folders
aren't that common. Therefore I'll downgrade the bug to important for
now, and will try to look into a solution for this.

Cheers :)
 Heikki