Re: [Evolution] evolution problem

[Apple <Todd Ness eds com>]

Thanks much for the info, I booted my SLED box and evo 2.6 was connecting
fine so I figured there would be a good fix.
I brought the Mac to work today so I am using Entourage I will give that a
shot tonight when I get home.


On 11/6/07 7:16 AM, "Paul Smith" <psmith gnu org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:25 -0600, Ness, Todd wrote:
> > This morning, I have been getting quite a few hangs, and ³Lost
> > connections to backend Exchange process² errors.
>
> There have been a number of bugs fixed in 2.12.1, FWIW.  However, a
> number of known bugs remain.
>
> When I get into a state like this I (a) shut down evo, (b) make sure all
> evolution processes are gone (with kill or pkill or whatever), then (c)
> remove all cached mail from my exchange account:
>
> rm -rf ~/.evolution/exchange ~/.evolution/mail/exchange
>
> if you have other types of accounts (POP or IMAP), as I do, be careful
> to delete just the "exchange" directories.
>
> After this Evo will be slow to start the first time as it recreates the
> inbox cache, and the first delete will also be slow as it recreates the
> deleted items folder cache.  But, it should solve all your connectivity
> issues.
>
> These days I have to do this every few days, mainly due to this bug:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478151
>
> which is still happening consistently even on the very latest SVN
> checkout.