On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 16:16 +0200, guenther wrote:
After having to kill X the other day with <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<BS>, Evo won't complete it's start-up any more. It seems to freeze at "Scanning IMAP folders...".Just pulling at straws here, but...
Thanks for replying.
Have you killed bonobo as well? Shut down the e-d-s backend? Or, to get rid of almost everything: Rebooted the machine? (Yes, that sounds scary. ;-)
Since I start X using startx, I've restarted bonobo and e-d-s many times, but without success.
One last thing that might be worth a try is removing your files in /tmp when restarting. Dunno though... To narrow down what hangs exactly, try starting Evo with any other component than the Mailer. See 'evolution --help' for details. Run Evo with the Calendar component, for example: $ evolution -c calendar Does that make Evo start up again?
No. Same half-start and hang. But, as you may notice, I'm sending this from Evo now. At your suggestion, I poked thru "evolution --help", and there I saw the "--offline" option. I started it up offline, then went online using File->"Work Online". Worked like a champ. (I hate to trash-talk the competition, but Sylpheed-claws really is primitive compared to Evo. But... where Evo choked, Sylpheed came thru. And thank $DEITY that I use IMAP and "server side" filtering. Even though I suddenly was using a different MUA, I still could read all my mail, and it all got dropped into the correct folders.) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" Vince Lombardi
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