Re: [Evolution] Bug

[Rob Cambra <rcambra amesbury com>]

We're using Evolution 2.12.0.

Regards,

RC

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
To: Todd Ness <Todd Ness eds com>
Cc: rcambra amesbury com, evolution-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Bug
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:53:20 -0400

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 06:35 -0600, Todd Ness wrote:
> 
> 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.

Interesting. I don't think EVOLUTION_COUNT_TRASH is relevant here
however.

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

The canonical way to kill Evo is "evolution --force-shutdown", but of
course "pkill" is easier to type. Is there a difference? I've no idea,
and the online help is silent.

> 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 

The OP implied he's using Ubuntu, so no rpm. Within Evo, Help->About
gives you the version info.

poc

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