On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:56 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > On Monday 09 June 2008 11:08:46 am linuxguy wrote: > > I've been using Evolution as my email client since RH8. I hate it > > because it seems to get confused if one opens up an email or changes > > [snip!] > > Is anyone using Thunderbird like this ? How does it compare ? How hard > > is it to move over to it ? > > Thanks > > 1) I have had the same sort of problems (and more) with Evolution > and I got tired of it. The hard part is getting it all configured > correctly. But even then, it is a resource hog as you mentioned, > but what pissed me off mostly was bugs, crashes, and manually > killing the processes when things go wrong with evo. I run evolution using MH folders (1 directory/folder, 1 file/message) and have had similar problems. Here are some of the problems I've seen at various time: 1) frequent crashes 2) having it mix up the headers with the message content 3) having it eat up 100%CPU time and having to manually delete screwed up index files and kill processes. I have filed bug reports, but the evolution people usually tell me that the version of evolution that I am running is old and the bugs are fixed in a more recent version. This is even with running the latest updates from the fedora-updates repository and even the fedora-updates-testing repo. The evolution maintainers have suggested that I run the debug version. I do wonder if there are any stable versions of Evolution (centos?). I've never run one that was. Oh, and I use MH folders because it give me the options of writing quick little shell scripts to manipulate messages. Sometimes I just prefer doing things on the command line over a gui... Oh and yes, I do have some large folders... [nataraj@whitewave]$ folder +fedora-list fedora-list+ has 28697 messages (1-28698); cur=28698. Nataraj -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
