Re: [Evolution] Re: Welcome to Evolution!

[Erik Pinzon <erik thechildrenstrust org>]

I think his point is valid, Evolution-Exchange connector chokes on any
account with more than a couple of calendar entries a day (the dreaded
$HOME/.evolution/exchange/<user>@server/personal/subfolders/Calendar/cache.ics file from hell), and  it is 
very slow and unstable with all accounts that handle more than a couple thousand emails on the Exchange 
server.

The Exchange connector is slow and buggy, it is the main cause of
problems here at work. For some "light" users, Evolution it can go on
and on for weeks without a problem, but for the not so light users (50+
emails a day, multiple calendar entries, canceled or postponed meetings,
etc) it just doesn't cut it. It crashes at least once a day.

On the other hand, Evolution is fast enough and stable with either local
mail boxes (over NFS in our case) or accessing the Exchange server via
IMAP (no Calendar, though, and LDAP access to the Contacts is a bear to
configure on A/D).

What we suggest to our "heavy" users it to have some filters that will
archive their old/read email (more than 60 days old, read, not flagged,
etc) into local mail boxes. Evolution behaves acceptably as long as you
keep your inbox under 1K or so emails. For some of our users (namely the
CEO), 8K emails on his inbox in outlook was normal.

Erik.

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 12:27 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 18:04 +1100, David J Radunz wrote:
> > This has got to be the crappiest email client I have ever used in my
> > entire life - If I had an option not to use it, I wouldnt - But since
> > its the only email client I can use on Linux to connect to the Microsoft
> > Exchange server I will have to continue using it and being constantly
> > frustrated.
> >
> > Constant problems include:
> >     * A crash a day 'evolution has quit unexpectedly'
> >     * My cursor (when sending emails) is two places behind the text
> >     * Frequent problems, I wont begin to list them.
> >
> > I am not the only person at my company who has problem with evolution -
> > EVERYONE who uses it has these problems and more. We are all using
> > Fedora Core 3.
> >
> > Yours ventfully,
>
> Hmmmm... Kind of sounds a bit like someone tweaked something on all your
> FC3 systems that broke evolution.
>
> evolution has been very dependable for me on FC3.
>
> Are you "yum -y update"'ing from time to time?