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. ---- something seems wrong indeed as I have used Evolution for quite some time (albeit i386 but that shouldn't make any difference). I have found that 'junk mail filtering' feature slows everything down to a crawl and does cause a lot of spamd processes and I don't recommend it. Try turning off junk mail filtering, exit Evolution, kill off all spamd processes and see if it isn't better behaved. ---- > > 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. ---- Thunderbird is solid and Kmail works well too. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
