Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[Darren Govoni <darren ontrenet com>]

I forgot to also mention, I have dozens of folders with 10's of thousands of messages.
Never had performance issue before this version (2.32.1) and I'm on AMD 64bit with 8GB RAM
so shouldn't be so slow.

I'll do some more investigating.

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
>
> > 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.
>
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