Re: [Evolution] Help me switch to evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 10:46 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 11:39 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:49 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: 
> > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:18 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 11:09 -0600, Ben Davis wrote:
> > > > > I'm currently using Thunderbird/Sunbird as my PIM managers, and I'm 
> > > > > wanting to switch to Evolution because of its tight integration with the 
> > > > > desktop.  However,  there are several things that are keeping me from 
> > > > > switching at this point, and I was hoping someone might be able to 
> > > > > provide some workarounds, solutions, or perhaps just suggest to me a 
> > > > > different way of doing things.
> > > > >
> > > > > 1.  IMAP seems VERY slow compared to Tbird.  Sometimes when I switch 
> > > > > from one account to another, I have to wait while it re-loads my entire 
> > > > > inbox...   Are there any options I can change to help speed things up?
> > > >
> > > > Evo is also doing a lot of local indexing, but I agree it seems
> > > > noticeably slower than TBird for IMAP access. It's also a *lot* more
> > > > brittle (quite frequently hangs while fetching mail for no obvious
> > > > reason) though recent versions are improving.
> >
> > Where are the bug reports of hangs?  I'm not aware of any deadlocks in
> > the code currently shipping, as exposed by bug reports (that doesn't
> > mean i haven't missed the reports).
>
> What I said was that "recent versions are improving". That means I
> haven't seen it recently but it's too early to say if it's completely
> fixed. Maybe the new IMAP code sorted it out.
>
> If it ever happens again with >= 2.2 I'll send in a report, but it's
> unlikely to say anything useful except "it hung". I never could relate
> it to anything specific I was doing.

Well, whaddya know, 2.2 just hung while I was composing a message. Total
hang, won't refresh windows, had to kill it. IMAP and LDAP servers were
both working correctly (I fired up TBird while the hang was in progress
to make sure).

I submitted a bug report.

poc