On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 12:19 -0700, Gregoire Gentil wrote:
I'm a long time user of Evolution through Ubuntu and I'm experiencing a lot of problems in the "latest" version from Ubuntu Precise.
I have no idea what "Ubuntu Precise" is.
I was on Maverick
I have no idea what "Maverick" is.
and I have done a major CLEAN (=erase everything except data) upgrade
This is a re-install but keeping the /home file system. (?)
of my PC to Precise. I'm currently running "evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6" as shown in the attached dpkg-list. Here are my problems: - secondly, in a very very old version of Evolution (much older than Maverick time), there was an option to choose between mdir and mbox format. That was a good idea. I'm not saying that moving to mdir is fundamentally a bad idea but it might have been interesting to continue to support mbox.
This still exists. When you add a local account you can choose the mailbox format / structure. I have MH, Maildir, MBOX file, and MBOX folder.
- thirdly, there are a few new things that are painful - at least for me. For instance, the "sending" features when the email window stays while it's sending is rather painful. It was better before when the email was going immediately to outbox and was sending asynchronously.
You get a "Cancel" button during the timeout, I think this is a big improvement. But I can see and argument for this to be optional. I search through the settings and I don't see anything related. Perhaps there is a setting in dconf? I'll have to install dconf-editor...
- fourthly, when I do reply to an email but save the reply to draft and send it later, the icon "reply" on the original email is not updated. It was the case before. It's reproducible all the time.
This sounds like a classic bug; that should be reported.
- fifthly, MANY times, I receive "big yellow" error messages "cannot transfer message to destination folder: No such file or directory" while moving 5 or 10 emails from inbox to my big Archive folder. Trying to move those emails in the same session one by one is working...
What is "my big Archive folder". Is that local, IMAP, etc...? Is it actually the message count or the size of the messages [do attachments matter?]? I move multiple messages all the time and have never seen that message. Run CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 evolution on the command line [I think this still works]. Then when you see the error message look at what CAMEL is spewing the standard-out; that may indicate the source of the problem.
- sixthly, most important, the preview window doesn't work well at all. MANY MANY TIMES, it gets stuck as shown in the attached screenshot. I was scrolling in the preview window. If I launch evolution from a terminal even with CAMEL debug info, there is nothing particular.
When opening a message I've had the message window sit there "retrieving message...." for a long time, close the window, and then opening the message again. That happens once it awhile. I don't recall seeing the preview message pane get stuck. I don't believe that would be a CAMEL issue but possibly a UI / Gtk issue [it is possibly still trying to display the message it is 'stuck' on?]. Does this generally only happen with HTML messages or messages with attachments?
- I see on the IRC that the latest stable is 3.4.2 but Ubuntu has only 3.2.3. Would updating fix some of those problems?
No clue. I'm on 3.2.3 w/ openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 and it is stable for me.
Thanks in advance for any answer or any hint,
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