The (d)evolution of Evolution
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Tue Dec 7 03:43:04 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:51 -0500, 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?
Unfortunately this is a known issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139145
I switched from wu-iampd to Courier and it helped greatly, but that is
not a practical solution.
Thomas
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