Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.0.3 -- when?

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 10:50 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Quoting Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>:
>
> > I've been running the Evolution mail system under Fedora-15/KDE for
> > about 6 weeks now, and it has some very serious problems, which I can
> > summarize as:
> >      1. It ignores font control from the KDE Settings->Applications
> >         Appearance window, both KDE font control and GTK+ font control,
> >         also its own internal font control window.
> >      2. It has trouble sending messages to an SMTP server, sometimes
> >         taking a l-o-n-g time, sometimes timing out. This can be
> >         temporarily cured by restarting it
> >      3. It crashes when a filter attempts to refile an outgoing
> >         message.
> >      4. It often asks if I want to recover messages that have never been
> >         lost.
> >      5. It often locks up receiving mail from a remote POP3 server.
> >      6. It often refuses to move messages, which can be copied and then
> >         deleted producing the same effect.  I have read that after a
> >         single message has been copied into a folder it will then always
> >         be possible to move messages into the folder; but this is not
> >         so.
> >      7. Deleted messages often do not disappear from a message list,
> >         even when "Show deleted messages" is not active, though they do
> >         appear in strikeout type.  Selecting another folder and then
> >         returning to the folder makes the messages disappear from
> >         the list.
>
> I'm Evolution in GNOME3 on openSUSE 11.4 and I don't believe I've  
> encountered any of these issues.
#1 is a KDE issue.  I didn't have it while running Gnome3.
> IMO, #2 sounds like the problem lies elsewhere, not in Evolution.
Very likely you're right.  I've been waiting for 3.0.3 before doing
serious investigation.
> I know I've never seen #4.
This is not new to me.  I've seen it for about a year, under both Gnome
and KDE.  In the latest version of evolution it happens a lot.
> Do 6 & 7 only affect local folders (POP) or remote (IMAP/IMAPX)  
> folders as well?
Local folders only.  I don't run IMAP/IMAPX.

====> The question remains: When will evolution-3.0.3 (or 3.1.x) be out?