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

[Paul Hands <phands cadence com>]

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On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 10:16, Oliver Marshall wrote:
> 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
No!  It needs to be 127.0.0.1 localhost hostname_here
In other words, the hostname on the same line as localhost.
> 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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