Re: [Evolution] Is it me, or is Evolution 2.30 buggy? (crashes, summary/folder mismatches, lost emails, etc.)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 17:00 -0800, portsample wrote: 
> Is it me, or is Evolution 2.30 buggy?
> I've been running Evolution as my daily driver since 2002 when Ximian
> was maintaining it. For what it is I have been very happy, until
> installing 2.30.1.2 which is the version shipping with openSuse 11.3. 

It has been quite stable for me; superior to previous versions.

> I do confess to having several thousand items in my "Inbox" and a couple
> of thousand items in my "Sent" folder. This has not been a problem until
> version 2.30.1.2. Since installing this version, I have been having
> daily crashes where Evolution disappears.

I've had evo "disappear" but only in calendar mode.  I have mail (IMAP)
folders with thousands (and tens of thousands) of messages - those work
without issue.

> This usually occurs in the
> middle of checking mail on servers. In addition, I have been gotten the
> "Summary and folder mismatch" error message several times, after which
> I've deleted .cmeta, .ibex, and .ev-summary folders
> from /home/user/.evolution/mail/local. This worked on previous versions
> of Evolution, however with 2.30.1.2 I have discovered that one half to
> nearly all of the contents of my inbox and sent items folder disappears
> as a result of this error. I have done this several times, recreating
> the inbox and sent items from backups. 
> QUESTION: Should I update to the newest stable version? 
> Thanks and keep up the good work. No really, you people do do good work,
> otherwise I wouldn't have stuck w/Evo for so long. Cheers. 

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