[Evolution] evolution and large mails

["Igor A. Nesterov" <igorn research att com>]

Today I have received rather big mail. It was of 80,000 text lines,
which gives us about 6MB, but other than that it was pure ASCII text.
It's automatically generated message with some sort of alarms, so
sometimes it happens. This message has practically killed Evolution and
in fact the whole desktop. Evolution generated so much disk activity
that any type of work on my desktop was impossible. I have been left
without email during critical work time, and I had to spent more than
1.5 hours trying to figure out what happened to my desktop. I only got
back to normal when I manually edited my incoming mailbox on IMAP
server, and found and removed corresponding cache file under .evolution
hierarchy on my desktop.

I am using

evolution-2.6.0-1

on

2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386
GNU/Linux

running in VMware Workstation 4.5.2

I am stubborn enough to continue with Evolution for a while trying to
figure out how it can suite my needs both at work and at home. But I
tend to agree with some people on this list this software is still far
far from completion. Those nice looking revision numbers 2.4, 2.6, etc.
cannot hide a fact that Evolution is really a beta.

Igor