[Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] observations working with beta 4 cvs

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 05:29, Ron Smits wrote:
> some interesting observations.
> I am desperatly awaiting a fully functional evolution to switch over. I
> would even pay money (:)) to use a product like this. The observations I
> have been posting have been made while trying to work with evolution the
> way I always work with an email client. Yes, I do consider myself to be
> a power user (with more then 3000 mails per week on my work account, I
> think I am). For me, if evolution is near perfect, it would be the
> central point of work for me. 
>       
> If these observations are of no use let me know I will stop with it
>
>         1. add two imap accounts to evolution (Yes, I have two, one for
>            home and one for work, seperate servers, both on the local
>            network). first give them the name evolution wants to have
>            them, This defaults to the email address. then rename them to
>            Thuis (dutch for Home) and Werk (dutch for Work), restart
>            evolution. the short cut bar now only contains two inbox type
>            icons. the others (Summary, Calendar, Contacts and the
>            default Inbox) are gone.
>         2. stop evolution, remove ~/evolution, stop all supporting
>            processes (like gconfd-1, bonobo-moniker-xmldb, oafd etc),
>            restart evolution. The first time wizard will kick in. Fill
>            in the same info as you did before. Somehow the passwords are
>            still known. 

passwords aren't saved in ~/evolution, they're saved in
~/.gnome_private/Evolution

>         3. If you are using an imap account and *not* server side
>            filtering, switch off the "check new mail in all folders"
>            options in the mails settings. Especially with more then 200
>            folders in my work account, this is a tremendous speedup.
>         4. Create a filter on incoming mail. Let it have two actions.
>            Action one move the mail to another folder, action two change
>            the color. When a mail comes it, the mail will be moved, but
>            not changed of color. In the inbox you will see the deleted
>            message with the changed color.
>         5. According to evolution/camel/camel.c, you should be able to
>            switch on Debugging by setting the environment variable
>            CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG. This does not work.

Actually, it does - but you need to run evolution-mail by hand instead
of having it started via evolution because oafd redirects stderr and
stdout for each component it starts up.

Jeff

> Evolution is getting there, but there is still work to be done
>
> Ron Smits
>
>
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