Evolution exchange "plugin" stability

Russell Cook bike_oz at yahoo.com.au
Mon Aug 1 07:48:21 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 08:28 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:54:49AM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> >Does anyone else here use the Evolution mail client with the Exchange
> >plugin and notice how terribly unstable it is?
> >I'm getting dozens of crashes every day, yet I can't really pin point
> >_why_ it's doing it.
> >
> >Am I alone in experiencing these issue's ?
> 
> You are not alone, not at all!
> 
> I have exactly the same experience. It dies frequently. It is also
> somewhat antisocial in that it often grabs all CPU cycles when
> communicating with the exchange server (that's at least what I think
> it's doing).

Yes I experienced this and reported it as a bug.

> 
> Configuring it is also somewhat interesting. Ever tried removing an
> exchange account? My calendar and task list simply would not go away. I
> ended up resetting all evolution settings (using 'gconftool-2
> --recursive-unset /app/evolution') and re-configuring the beast.

Similar I "accidently" created a non-existent address book and had to
use gconftool-2 to edit it out.

> 
> I've never managed to muster the energy to dig into (or bitch about)
> Evolution. Judging by the stability of the SW I doubt I am alone.
> 

It works great in pop and imap mode.


> /M
> 

Kind Regards Russell
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