Re: [Evolution] Bug

[Peter Lord <peter plord co uk>]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 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.
>
> Best regards,


I'm going through a similar exercise ... but on opensuse 10.3.

I see that opensuse have a applied quite a few patches on top of the
evolution 2.12 source.  Also, I've noticed some recent opensuse updates
in some of the pre-requisists ( such as libsoup ).  Net result seems to
be that its pretty stable for me.

Suggest its worth checking if there are similar patches applied to the
Ubuntu packages.

[ in fact there were a couple of fixes which I wanted and arn't in the
opensuse patch list, so I've taken the source rpm and added these in
myself :-) ]

Pete