Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 09:14 -0500, Darren Govoni wrote:
>   I recently upgraded Fedora 13 to Fedora 14. 

I'm using openSUSE 11.3

> I've been using Evolution for many, many years.

Same here.

> With this new gnome version it has become unstable and almost
> unusable. 
> 1) I now get frequent "error storing folders", "error generating
> message list"

I don't get any such errors.

> 2) It's so slow. It is always "Storing folder", taking almost minutes
> to complete. Its on average 5-8x slower
> downloading, storing and viewing messages.

Performance [especially with IMAP+ provider] is really impressive.

> 3) Its very buggy. When new messages arrive, they no longer show up in
> the folder I'm viewing.
> I have to click another folder and click back to see them.
> 4) For the first time ever, it corrupted my email files and I had to
> recover from backup.
> What has happened here? And why doesn't Evolution use a database with
> ACID to store
> emails? Seems obvious to me. 

If you run evolution in a window, perhaps with CAMEL debugging enabled,
do you see any interesting messages.

And saying you are using "Fedora 14" doesn't help.  What version of
Evolution are  you using?  I don't know off-hand what version of
Evolution every distribution ships with.