[Evolution] 1.4.6 to 1.5 Migration Experiance

["Wise, Jeremey" <jeremey wise agilysys com>]

Just wanted to post my experiances in transition from stable 1.4.6 to
1.5. I had a lot of little issues with SuSe 9.0 and figured I would try
jumping to 9.1 before I started complaining. Nothing major but things
that make life with Linux less then elegant. 

During that process I found  the OS to be much more stable and user
friendly. (On a side note SuSe's network configuration interface is
still broken). I loved red-carpet and also needed it to do the Evolution
pieces so I used it right away to get things loaded for mail. I figured
I would try 1.5 to see how it did. A couple of my notes and comments.

1) Install was great. red-carpet realy helps out that process.

2) Post install  it took me only a few minutes to find out how to import
all my 1.4.6 mail (copy of my old hard drives /home/'username'/evolution
direcotry)into 1.5. "evolution-1.5  --force-migrate". This imported all
my mail but did not import my mail server settings and preferances. I
remember their being a post about this but could not find it. I would
recommend their be some kind of "migrationn how-to" posted. When 1.4.6
to 2.x goes live. Maybe even a wizard from red-carpet?

3) The new interface is very nice. I would like the flexability to
shrink the bottom left buttons (Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Tasks,
Exchange) as I have a lot of mailbxes I need to see open and all the
side space I can get is a help when I have to sort emails.

4) Spell checking does not work again. I had this issue with 1.4.6 and
it was an issue of needing aspell-en which red-carpet did not install
but even once I found my old email on that and installed it, it still
does not work.
****
evolution1.5-1.5.91.0.200407250732-0.snap.ximian.9.1
evolution-data-server-0.0.96.0.200407250732-0.snap.ximian.9.1
libjasper-1.700.5-58
aspell-0.50.5-35
aspell-en-0.51.0-285
****

5) Their seem to still be some emails that show as having attachments
that do do not alow me to 'detatch' them. The email size indicates their
are attachments. I can forward it on an example if it is of use. I have
not found a pattern to help give direction (pdf in the one case).

5) As for stability (their were some postings about issues with it on
9.1) I have had no issues. It has worked flawlessly on the stability
front.

Thanks to all those who spend their days and nights coding and fixing
bugs. Your efforts are apreciated and are definatly worth it. I have had
quite a few people looking at evolution as an Outlook replacement
because of the quality of the product.

-- 
Jeremey Wise