Is anyone else here masochist enough to use evolution ?
With the standard build on Ubuntu 8.10 (2.24.3) I am getting some strange problems.
It seems to get triggered by either closing down my workstation while evolution is running or launching a second instance via x forwarding Either way when this happens it seems to corrupt folders.db resulting in the the following issues
When I restart everything I have sent from the last time it was started is back in the outbox and gets resent (you have probably seen this on the list)
The unread count for some folders doesn't tally with the number of unread messages in the folder, for example at the moment it says I have 80 unread items in "Deleted items" but if I hide read items in that folder I see I have none unread.
If I follow the advice I found online of deleting folders.db and launching evolution in offline mode the db is rebuilt and the problems seem to go away for a bit. But one restart with it accidentally left running or as I think I did the other day where I had it running once locally and once in a forwarded session it reappears. To make matters worse when I delete folders.db I lose message flags which I actually sometimes use.
Has anyone else experienced/fixed this ?
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:27:29AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Has anyone else experienced/fixed this ?
The only solution I've found to these kind of problems (that seem common with evolution) is to use a better mail client (and that means outlook is even an option). :)
(sorry) Adam
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:05:05AM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:27:29AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Has anyone else experienced/fixed this ?
The only solution I've found to these kind of problems (that seem common with evolution) is to use a better mail client (and that means outlook is even an option). :)
Yes, Evolution seems to have lots of niggles like this, it's just rather too complex for its own good. Maybe it's an example of what happens when you depart from the Unix ideal of programs being aimed at doing one thing well.
It's a pity that Evolution is really the only option if you want to synchronize things with a PDA or phone simply.
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