[Gllug] Evolution mail client on Debian

[Xander D Harkness]

Steve Nicholson wrote:

>Hi.
>I've been playing with Evolution for Imap mail and calendaring and it
>seems a little rough, so thought I would check on others experiences
>before I give up on it.  It has been better than slypheed for me so far
>but not quit good enough to commit to yet.  Every now and again it
>freezes up on me like tonight when I selected to load the images in a
>html message. This appears to be the mail client side of things because
>when I kill it Evolution is available again although have to restart it
>to get the mail working.  The reminder messages for the calendar don't
>seem to work, no sounds are played if selected and the popup message box
>freezes only showing the background window (this maybe to do with using
>ION window manager).  No spell checker for Debian running under woody.
>  
>
I had a lot of those types of problems with the earlier releases.

I get no new message alerts but the great problem for me is speed.  It 
does not cache messages between sessions, only the headers and 
frequently it loses track of the message headers during a session and 
needs to reload the whole lot again.  It is significantly slower than 
Mozilla mail, which is still much slower than Netscape 4.7x.

In addition the name / email autocomplete is much slower than Mozilla 
(only 700 addresses in local address book)

Mozilla now does a very good job caching messages.  

I am running Evolution 1.08 which arrives with RH8, even on a very fast 
network.

>Is it me, my system, bad luck (I get a lot of this) or Evolution not
>quit ready yet?
>  
>
It is not ready for me yet.

Kind regards
Xander


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