Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?

[Andrew Greig <AndrewLGreig netscape net>]

> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:37:39 -0400
> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?
> To: Chris Williams <chris williams armstrong edu>
> Cc: evolution-list gnome org
> Message-ID: <1194457069 24461 10 camel bree>
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> 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!).


> poc
Hi Patrick,

A few years ago I used to get freezing of the GUI and a stalled or
interrupted flow of text when typing.  One of the guys in a LUG that I
haunt, suggesting checking my network settings, especially the hosts
file. So apart from having 127.0.0.1 localhost
I added 127.0.0.1 andrew.Family.home  andrew  to the hosts file, and
everything picked up speed, and no more freezing.

YMMV

Cheers

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Andrew Greig
Community Distributor
OpenOffice.org 
Melbourne, Australia