On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 23:01, Temlakos wrote: > Let me guess: the crash occurs whenever you hit the Send/Recieve button, > or when it automatically tries to send/receive mail in the background, > doesn't it? > > Same thing happened to me. Maybe now somebody'll believe me and quit > ducking the issue. > > I'm using Mozilla Mail now--bagged it using Synaptic. I tried installing > Evo 2.2 (yes, I found an rpm for it), but it has too many dependencies. > > Can't help you about moving the mail or the addresses--the format's all > different. Mozilla Mail uses the old ".eml" format, but Evo is strictly > XML all the way. As to the contacts, I tried opening a big VCF having > all my contacts in it, and all I would up installing were blank cards. Wrong. Both use an mbox format. Just move an mbox file from your evolution/local/Inbox folder to .mozilla/profile-name/somedir.slt/Mail/Local Folders and restart mozilla and all your mail is there. > > Anyway, I'd suggest going to bugzilla.redhat.com and leaving a comment > on Bug Number 129527. For what it's worth, do what I did: generate a > BugBuddy stack trace and leave it as an attachment to the bug. Don't > bother complaining to Ximian or Gnome--neither of them will admit that > the problem is with their code. Actually, the problem is that the > combination breaks with a revision of the library. I guess sometimes > dynamically linked libraries don't work. Though they should. (And how > come Mozilla's mail client doesn't suffer from the same problem?) > > What keeps happening is that Evo is too sensitive to changes in glibc. > Two days ago Gnome changed glibc, and when the Red Hat Network > distributed it to all Fedora Core users, and they installed it, Evo croaked. > > You have to do *something*, because if your problem is anything like > mine, Evo is useless to you now. You gotta move. > > Temlakos > > Dick Roth wrote: > > >Woke up in the middle of a snow storm without power to my PC. All is > >now normal except that Evo 1.4.6, which was installed as part of the FC2 > >install keeps crashing...often. > > > >Attempted download of newer version, but Ximian (Novell) doesn't > >recognize FC2 yet and I can't find Evo rpms on any other source. > > > >Thought about moving to Thunderbird, but moving the mail and addresses > >looks like a major project. > > > >Suggestions? > > > >Thanks, > >Dick > > > > > > > >
