Re: [Evolution] Exchange folders retrieving problem

["Veerapuram Varadhan" <vvaradhan novell com>]

Hi Victor,

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 09:49 +0100, Victor Fernandes wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've just subscribe to this list, because I'm having an evolution problem
> (what else ;-)) and I would like to ask you some help. Sorry if this
> question was already answered but I was unable to find the answer.
>
> I've recently re-installed my laptop with Mandriva 2007 and reconfigured
> evolution to use my corporate Exchange account.
>
> Everything seams to work properly, except that evolution takes a long long
> time to retrieve the folders information from the exchange server
> (hours!).
>
> After some investigation I could conclude that the "problem" is due to the
> evolution-exchange-storage "module" retrieving all the existing folders
> structure from the exchange server. We have a very deep public folders
> structure, retrieving all this structure takes a long type and worst
> completely fills the available disk partition space (more then 1GB!).
>
> My question is, is it possible to "tell" the evolution-exchange-storage
> "module" to only retrieve a specific set of directory structure or the
> other way around do not retrieve a specific set?
No, and this is a serious bug and is fixed in 2.9.4/5 versions.  The fix
is being backported to 2.8.3.  Please update to 2.8.3, if possible
(release is on 29th Jan 2007).

Also, 2.8.1 has other issues with accessing sub-folders of Inbox, which
is fixed in 2.8.2. 

HTH,

V. Varadhan