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
