Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:38 -0500, Chris Williams wrote:
> > That's very true on my Ubuntu system... Thunderbird is the more stable
> > of the two clients. However, I put up with it.
> > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 12:46 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > > Without wanting to start a religious war, it's been my personal
> > > experience that Evo crashes and/or hangs a lot more than TB on the same
> > > platform (many versions of Fedora using KDE). Despite this, I use Evo
> > > nearly all the time because I'm comfortable with it (maybe that's why I
> > > see more problems :-)
>
> I can't be the only exception to this.  I've been using Evo since
> it's .9x days on various flavors of Fedora Core, and recently Ubuntu.
> In all this time, I have only seen Evo crash a handful of times.  My
> initial impression is that Exchange users are the ones that seem to
> suffer the most, is that the case?  

Not for me. I don't have any Exchange accounts.

> Admittedly, I only use Evo to check 5-7 IMAP accounts and occasionally a
> Groupwise account.  I guess I just wanted to comment that there are
> cases where Evo has, and continues to be rock-solid for some users.

No doubt, but in a way that's actually more worrying. i.e. Evo works for
some people most of the time and for other people not so much. Evo in
all its incarnations has had variable levels of reliability for me, on
two different machines, always using Fedora and KDE. The distro packages
have I think been more reliable than self-compiled versions, which might
mean something. Right now I'm using a self-compiled 2.12.1 on F7 with
all distro updates installed and the entire UI freezes every few seconds
when I'm typing, when changing folders, and when (apparently) contacting
the IMAP server, plus evolution-alarm-notify sometimes eats 100% of CPU
and has to be killed (I notice because I monitor my CPU temperature!).

On a different note, my junk filters simnply do not work at all (they do
with the distro package). I've tried SA and Bogofilter and they are
never automatically activated (I'm tracking them with a log file).

Tomorrow Fedora 8 will be released so I'll be able to upgrade and
hopefully these issues will go away, but it's annoying to try and stay
up with the latest Evo's only to find some missing funcionality for
reasons that are not clear. Before anyone asks, upgrading to the Rawhide
version means installing a large number of additional packages so I
don't care to do that, having had other stability problems with Rawhide
in the past.

poc