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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.
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