[ILUG] evolution first impressions..

[Dave Airlie]

Okay an issue that I've noticed before with a few of these type IMAP
mailers.. is they don't like a folder call inbox anywhere but the
/var/spool/mail/<username> INBOX... I've procmail sticking my mail in
~/mail/inbox and I think this did confuse poor old evolution a bit ..
I've renamed the above folder to ~/mail/mailinbox and I'll see how it
goes at that ..

Regards,
	Dave.


On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 12:41, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> Well I gave it a whirl but it can get a bit messy .. I'd say it is great
> for doing low volume and stuff.. but when it hits the big time folders it
> is seriously lacking in threading and whirling clocks etc... it is
> impossible to know if it is has hung or is busy procesing and just wants
> more time ..
> 
> I've got a 9000 mail INBOX over an SSL/IMAP connection over the Internet
> for it and it worked fine the first few times, but it somehow has lost
> sync with the server and can't find the bloody inbox anymore .. it is
> still there on the server but evolution has having issues with finding it
> .. despite subscribe/unsubscribe... it can find my ilug and linux mailing
> lists folders fine just the huge inbox gives it sickness..
> 
> I also have a local 1000 mail inbox over plain IMAP, and it fairs better
> along with a load of incoming folders from procmail... none of these as
> large at the one before.
> 
> it seems to be missing an option to re-synchronise all my IMAP folders
> with the locally stored information, which I think is invaluble if it is
> going to get out of sync at all... I'm also v.bad for hopping up a pine
> session to the same IMAP server and stuff like that when I'm not at my
> main screen ... so that may not help :-)
> 
> Apart from that it looks cool and is as stable as I expected it it
> would... I'm going to nuke my evolution folder and go again and see how it
> gets on with a from scratch...
> 
> Dave.
> 
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