Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[Darren Govoni <darren ontrenet com>]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 09:15 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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
Gotcha
> > I've been using Evolution for many, many years.
>
> Same here.
Yes. And I love it, but am nervous about the version I am using now.
> > 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.
Great, so this means maybe mine is broke.
> > 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.
Hmmm. Interesting.
> > 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.
I'll look into that.
> 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.
2.32.1

Every prior version from this one was great and never any issues or worries. But this one
has serious problems on Fedora 14.
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