Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[darren ontrenet com]

Mine is just POP. Pretty bland.

> On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 12:31 -0800, Tory M Blue wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> > <awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 21:04 +0100, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote:
> > > > Le lundi 20 décembre 2010 à 09:14 -0500, Darren Govoni a écrit :
> > > > > 1) I now get frequent "error storing folders", "error generating
> > > > > message list"
> > > > > 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.
> > > > > 3) Its very buggy. When new messages arrive, they no longer show up
> > in
> > > > > the folder I'm viewing.
> >
> >
> > You are not kidding, F12 Evolution 2.28.3
> >
> > Pile of crud.. I use it because I need MAPI (or prefer it I guess).
> > But I can't edit a distribution list without it crashing. It crashes a
> > few times a day when loading in large qty of mail and I select to view
> > or try to filter or something.
>
> You didn't say what your Evolution server type is.  There are two
> backends that can connect to Exchange: the Exchange backend and the MAPI
> backend.
>
> The Exchange backend is actually very stable and works very well.  The
> problem with it is that it only works with Exchange 2003.  You can't use
> it with Exchange 2007.
>
> If you must use the MAPI backend then yes, it is pretty bad.  I would
> consider it proof-of-concept _at best_; definitely not even alpha
> quality much less release.  Some of that may be due to the MAPI
> libraries it uses (these are from the Apache folks), and THAT is because
> MAPI is a proprietary protocol that Microsoft was only relatively
> recently forced to publish (by the EU); before that it was all trial and
> error.  But another part of it is that there doesn't seem to be much
> priority on making it work well from the Evo side.  Or maybe there
> aren't people with the right skills and/or right equipment (an Exchange
> server is obviously required, which is not something your average home
> hacker has lying around).
>
> I've basically given up using the MAPI backend and switched to running
> Outlook inside Wine (via Crossover Office).  It crashes sometimes but
> it's not much worse than Outlook on Windows, from what I've seen.
>
> My company is going to be moving from Exchange to Lotus Notes soon
> anyway so the entire issue will soon be moot (for me).
>
> Anyone have a Notes backend for Evolution? :-)
>
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