RE: [Evolution] Sooo many problems with the exchange connector

["Oliver Marshall" <om skillsearch co uk>]

Yeah, sorry. Ok details (as best I know them, im a noob)

Mandrake 9.2
Gnome 2.4
Evo 1.4.5
Connector, well the rpm is titled
ximian-connector-1.4.5-0.ximian.6.1.i586.rpm

I set the variable as you suggested, but now when I load Evolution I get
an error dialog saying

Cannot activate component OAFIID
GNOME_EVOLUTION_ADDRESSBOOK_SHELLCOMPONENT
The error from the system is
Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0'

Though I get the feeling its not related to the change I made.

"If you add your machine's hostname to the loopback line as an alias,
there can be a dramatic speedup."

I have the following in the host file, and im assuming that's what you
mean.
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       host_name_here

Olly

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hands [mailto:phands cadence com] 
Sent: 11 March 2004 10:03
To: Oliver Marshall
Cc: Evolution list
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Sooo many problems with the exchange connector

Did you bugzilla your problems?  The Ximian folks have been excellent in
the past at zapping bugs, but they have to know about them first.  What
exchange server are you running?

Not sure about the memory issue - I've been using connector since it
first came out, and it's never had any problems like that - for me, that
is, on various flavours of SuSE Linux.

Speed problems with things like changing folders have been seen before.
I seem to remember that there is an issue with the hosts file. If you
add your machine's hostname to the loopback line as an alias, there can
be a dramatic speedup. There was another issue about having no blank or
comment lines in the hosts file either, but I don't think that's
related.

As a general comment, you'll get better answers if you post details - OS
version, machine specs, Evo/Connector versions, tracebacks (You can set
a variable, CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG to 1 in a shell and then run evolution
to get more feedback), any other info.

Paul


On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 09:07, Oliver Marshall wrote: 

        I have numerous problems with the connector. Is it possible its
        something other than the connector at fault? Such as the
exchange server
        not setup to its liking or something?
        
        Problems I have include (but not limited to)
        
        Massive memory usage. Memory usage (using Gnome Sytem Monitor
looking at
        the Evolution-Exchange-storage process) seems to be about the
same as
        the contents of a folder, so if the folder contains 250mb of
emails, the
        process seems to take that much space. We have some folders with
tens of
        thousands of emails and Evolution just dies viewing these
folders
        
        Amazingly slow. Flicking between folders takes about 30 mins or
more at
        the moment, and this is viewing folders with 10 emails or
10,000. 
        
        Emails sent never arrive. Emails sent from evolution using
exchange
        server don't show in the outbox of evolution, nor the sent items
in
        evolution, nor the outbox or sent items of OWA or an outlook
client.
        Most of the test emails never arrive at their destination, but
we have
        received one of them which was received (and also oddly sent
according
        to the sent items folder) about 15hours after the user sent it.
        
        Moving between folder triggers Exchange AV runs. Each time a
user
        changes folders, it causes Exchange to scan that folder with the
AV
        package (Symantec Corporate AV 8.6 though we are moving to
Trends
        Corporate soon) resulting in users getting a spate of "Cannot
scan email
        due to encrypted attachment" mails which are common when forcing
a scan
        of a mailbox. This could be related to the amazing slow speed of
        changing folders.
        
        
        
        There are more, but my fingers hurt from typing ! :)
        
        Olly
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