Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[Gavin Simpson <gavin simpson ucl ac uk>]

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 Pourà wrote:
> > > Le lundi 20 dÃcembre 2010 Ã 09:14 -0500, Darren Govoni a Ãcrit :
> > > > 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

Time to upgrade then - maybe F14's evolution will give you a better
experience?

> 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.

Evo has worked fine on my Fedora 12 workstation in work for 12+ months.
The odd crash (something I could probably count on both hands) has
happened, but nothing major. I don't use MAPI, just standard IMAP to my
University servers.

> Email from google, comes in with unknown encoding so I have to select
> view and select the encoding so I don't get the ?.. Exchange users
> send calendar events and evolution says this says it's a calender
> event but I don't believe it. Get an email with large amount of listed
> text (directory listing of files that have not changed) and I can't
> view it, evolution screen is gray. I have to have another unix user
> forward that mail to me (and I receive it fine).
>
> So maybe evolution is puuurfect but the mapi connector hates me, I
> don't know, but there are so many jokes around the office regarding my
> email client and how I can't forward simple html emails without it
> puking all over or that I can't edit distribution lists that I'm
> responsible for.
>
> Sorry but it's horrible in Fedora (standard yum builds)
> Tory

G
(A reasonably well satisfied Evolution user on Fedora 12-14.)

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