Re: [Evolution] Bug

[Todd Ness <Todd Ness eds com>]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 08:23 -0400, Rob Cambra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I represent a company with 600+ end users.  We are actively seeking
> replacements for many Microsoft technologies such as Outlook/Exchange
> and MS Office.  We are currently testing OpenOffice.org and Evolution
> with select users and the IT Staff.
>
> The biggest complaint we see with Evolution after one month of use is
> the apparent inability of Evolution to properly handle HTML-based
> e-mail with Internet content.  For instance, when a user receives an
> HTML message with graphics and other content fetched from Internet
> locations, the reading pane (lower right pane) freezes.  At this
> point, you can't use the reading pane anymore and Evolution can't be
> closed out.  The only option to return Evolution to normal
> functionality is to log off the user.
>
> We've seen this behavior on Ubuntu 7.10 using Evolution as an Exchange
> client.  This is meant as constructive feedback because we want your
> technology to succeed.
Some things I have found to make evolution a little better.
give it a wrapper script similar to this.
#!/bin/bash

export EVOLUTION_COUNT_TRASH=1
ulimit -n 1024
exec /usr/bin/evolution

the file limit helped a lot.

Also, instead of logging the user out you can open a shell and run:
pkill -f evolution
and then start your client up again.

I have been asking several questions the last 2 weeks about why
evolution freezes as well and have not seen much help.
I would assume that they will need more information such as the version
of evolution you are running.
run this command in a terminal...
rpm -qa|grep evolution 

But, who knows maybe the lack of information will get a response
Good Luck from a guy who is totally invested in non-Windows platforms
making to the desktop
-- 
Todd Ness 
Infrastructure Specialist - Workplace Services Non-Windows ADS