[Evolution] Evolution 3.1.x

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

As you may remember, I've been running the Evolution mail system under Fedora-15/KDE for about a month 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.

I can live with these, except for items 1 and 2, since I have workarounds.

My system versions are:

• Fedora-15
• KDE 4.6.5
• gnome-3.0.x
• evolution-3.0.2-3
• all running on a 4 processor x86_64 system

I'd like to try out evolution 3.1.x, which seems to be stuck somewhere in the pipeline, so I downloaded the latest evolution-3.1.4-1.fc16, from koji.  Unfortunately it won't run, nor will the source build, due to incompatibilities between the versions on koji, which are for fc16 and my current fc15 system.

Questions:

• Do you expect to have an evolution-3.1.x available on updates (or wherever) in the near future
• if not, is there any simple way to get the versions on koji to install or build on my system?

Thanks - jon