Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[darren ontrenet com]

Oddly enough, what I'm seeing is that my Evolution on Fedora 13 and other
disros was fine (relatively). As soon as I went to Fedora 14, it had
noticeable problems.

> 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
>
> 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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