Re: The (d)evolution of Evolution

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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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