Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?

[Chris Williams <chris williams armstrong edu>]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:37 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:38 -0500, Chris Williams wrote:
> > 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!).

Oh, definitely.  As a (non-Evo) developer, I do value consistency and I
have to agree that I haven't always seen that with this product.  I
certainly didn't meant to imply that Evo has no problems at all.  In
fact, a lot of distro upgrades were solely because of bugs/quirks or
inability to upgrade because of all the Gnome dependencies.  I will
agree that I probably have an extra level of stability through the use
of distro packaging.  I will easily admit I went to distro-only
packaging because of many of the quirks I encountered while using the
"real" releases.

> 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).

I see occasional problems with filters as well, and junk filtering does
seem to work sometimes while not others. Frustrating.

> 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.

Good luck with the upgrade.  I saw many improvements moving from
Ubuntu's 2.10 to 2.12 packages.

--chris