The (d)evolution of Evolution
Sasa Stupar
sasa at stupar.homelinux.net
Mon Dec 6 18:49:00 UTC 2004
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Joe Klemmer wrote:
| Synopsis:
| Evolution hangs for 5 minutes or more when connecting to an IMAP
| server, thus rendering email reading impossible. This happens with all
| IMAP servers. The hanging "feature" does not exist under Thunderbird.
| Does anyone know what causes this and, more importantly, how to fix it?
|
| Rant:
| I have been using Evolution for my email for quite a while now.
| It always seemed to me that every version increase would lose some
| feature or function that was great. Over all it keeps getting worse and
| worse as the versions go up. Now FC3 ships with Evolution 2. The UI
| changes are really bad. The problem is that it's trying to look and act
| more and more like Outlook. Outlook just plain SUCKS! Outlook wasn't
| good when times were good. However, I have been sticking with Evolution
| because it has, by far, the best spell checking of any application I've
| ever used. And my English spelling is really that bad as to need this.
| So all in all it's been ok.
|
| There has always been one small problem with it that's now
| become insurmountable. Every time Evolution connects to the IMAP server
| the app will hang. It'll sit there unmoving and unresponsive until it's
| done talking to the server. As the version numbers have been going up
| the length of this hang-while-talking has increased. I can only guess
| that this is also part of the Outlook cloning process.
|
| Yesterday I got completely fed up and gave Thunderbird a shot.
| While it has some issues with functionality (not lack of, just
| different) there is absolutely no hanging or waiting with it. None at
| all. I am not forced to wait up to the 5 minutes it now takes for
| Evolution to finish doing whatever it's doing and allow me to read
| email. What would to take hours with Evolution takes minutes with
| T-bird. I'm not exaggerating.
|
| So now I have a dilemma... If I switch to T-bird I will lose my
| spell checking and also my address list. Oh, BTW, the utility
| evolution-addressbook-export that comes with FC3 does not work at all
| for CSV format. When I try it I get a funky binary output file full of
| 0x0A characters. Right now it seems to me that the balance point has
| finally shifted, though. I need to be able to read my email and if that
| means switching to T-bird and redoing my address list by hand and
| sacrificing a little spell checking then it's worth it.
|
| But I'll make one last attempt to see if I can get Evolution in
| a usable state. Does anyone out there know how to fix this problem?
|
I am experiencing the same behaviour also. And I run Evolution 1.4 on
FC2. And I also don't want to change due to as you have said "the best
spell checking" outhere.
Sasa
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