Re: Evolution Pain

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 20:14 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Evolution just doesn't seem ready for prime time, at least on x86_64 
> boxes like I have. It is by far the most unstable of my Fedora Core 5 
> applications -- it quits unexpectedly or stops responding at least once 
> an email session, and often several times. The address book is too 
> difficult to use -- for instance it won't autocomplete email addresses, 
> and often an address you thought you added to the address book is lost 
> in the bit bucket. I notice it takes way too long to download email -- 
> longer than Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook or Outlook Express.
> 
> I guess I'll try Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 for a couple of weeks and see if it 
> is any improvement. I tried it in the early, pre-1.0 versions and after 
> several weeks it arbitrarily munched all my folders, leaving about half 
> the contents of each one "invisible". I hope this version is an 
> improvement.
> 
> Bob Cochran

That is interesting since I have none of those problems using evolution
on an x86_32 machine. I find it a very usable email client.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>