[MlMt] MailMate and PGP is slow

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 22 Oct 2015, at 9:58, Lars Chr. Duus Hausmann wrote:

> I would like to use encryption, and I’ve setup gpg tools and as such 
> it works pretty well. However, it seems that lately performance has 
> become quite unbearable.
>
> I experience lags from mailmate in the following use-cases, where 
> I’ve noticed it:
> - composing mails (or rather drawing the preview window I guess)

In the test releases I've fixed an issue which should at least make it 
work better when the preview is disabled.

> - marking multiple mails in folders
>
> I’ve now disabled encryption (and signing) for now, and it’s nice 
> and fast again. Just for reference I’ve played around with a couple 
> of other MUA’s with encryption/signing enabled and haven’t noticed 
> the same problems.

The main problem is that MailMate calls `gpg2` on the main thread. If 
there is anything slow (like lookups on a slow key server) then it'll 
behave as you describe. The secondary problem is that the preview 
triggers MailMate to call `gpg2` more often than it probably should.

> So - any advice on how to MailMate to perform better with OpenPGP 
> tools enabled?

You can use GPG Preferences to switch of automatically checking key 
server(s) for missing keys and you can update MailMate to the test 
version if you can work without the preview (there is a shortcut to 
enable/disable it). But the best solution is of course that I fix the 
shortcomings described above :-)

-- 
Benny
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