[Evolution] Why I must stop using Evolution

[Harald Beck <harald beck gmx at>]

Hi guys,

here is some feedback to version 2.26 running under ubuntu.

First, I encountered a couple of very annoying bugs: (No, I don't want 
to engage in Bugzilla; sorry.)

* In the calender view, where tasks and memos appear on the right, the 
memo list is empty, though there are memos listed in the memo view.

* Evolution crashes (!) each time I edit a previously created 
appointment to make it an recurring event. So if I forgot to specify 
that at the time of creation, I have to delete it first, and create it 
again, making sure I edit the recurrence information before closing the 
formular.

* If I start the computer from hibernating (having Evolution started 
before hibernating), I'm prompted for the password for one of my two 
mail accounts -- without effect (endless loop); so I have to cancel. 
This does not happen, if I shutdown the computer, and start Evolution as 
usual. (That problem seemed to be linked with using ubuntu; but why does 
it work for the other account!?)

There are other suggestions which are not bugs, but they shall not 
concern us here.

I could live with the bugs above for some time, but: Today I started 
Evolution, and ALL calendar, task and memo entries were gone! The 
according lists to file them are still here, but no items. In other 
words, without doing anything, all information is gone and I have no 
clue why.

I enjoyed using evolution more and more since I started using it a 
couple of months ago and so I managed to live with the mentioned bugs 
which were indeed annoying.

But I cannot possibly use a software that deletes stored information, or 
stores it in such a way that it cannot be retrieved.

Well, I might go now browse ~/.evolution and see whether I can do 
anything about, but hey, I wanna USE this software and not hack it.

Hope that helps & looking forward to a (much) more mature version,
Harald