Re: [Evolution] Slow Evolution - OWA - Evolution connector

[Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe sunspace co za>]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 22:58 +0300, Ilya wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:54:37 -0600
> "Peter Van Lone" <petervl gmail com> wrote:
>
> > On 1/23/07, Peter Van Lone <petervl gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > just to throw more fuel on this:
> >
> > I used the evo version (and exch connector) that came with SUSE 10.0
> > ... and had the following issues:
> >
> > 1)really really slow startup (excruciating)
> > 2)"generic error" subscribing to another users calendar
> > 3)fairly often crashing
> > 4)general flakiness
> >
> > I upgraded that version to 2.6 (still on SUSE 10.0) and it seemed that
> > the startup speed improved marginally, but the other errors/issues
> > persisted.
> >
> > I now have a fresh, clean install of SLED running 2.6 EVO ... same
> > damn issues. Plus, there does not seem to be a way to upgrade to any
> > newer version on SLED 10. But, from what I am hearing, the 2.8.x
> > versions and above are no better.
> >
> > Can you say "not ready for a corporate deployment"? Can you say ... if
> > the brutus option is not better, then EVO is just not an option. I
> > guess I'll have to keep using *something*, perhaps I'll continue to
> > struggle with EVO, but I will NOT suggest it to customers.
>
> Despite that gentoo evo 2.8 branch is masked, it's noticeably better
> than 2.6
>
> Ilya.

2.8 is much faster and well...bit more stable.

(ps.I have to use Evol because of the MS freaks we have in the IT
department, but I believe that email should be web-based, with local
offline cache; fat clients are just an overkill) 


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