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

[Ilya <subcreator post ru>]

ÐÐ Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:14:04 +0200
Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe sunspace co za> ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐÐ:

> 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) 

I use 2.8 too :)
It was a Peter Van Lone message, where i replied to him, that 2.8 is
much more stable.
> > But, from what I am hearing, the 2.8.x
> > versions and above are no better.