I had been having troubles with the mail component of Evolution appearing to crash, and after finding killev and oafslay (more programs to kill runaway processes!), I was a bit happier, but it seems that the source of my troubles lay deeper.
I was running Nautilus and Evolution at the same time, and I hadn't configured sound ( esd ) yet, since I wasn't too bothered. BUT according to this Debian bug I found, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=107941&repeatmerged=yes Nautilus runs crappy if esd isn't configured. I had noticed this, but it wasn't high on my list of things to fix. Once I stopped using Nautilus, Evolution seemed to perform flawlessly ( YAY! ). I can only surmise that Nautilus was disturbing oaf or bonobo or one of those type things, and that was disturbing Evolution. HTH - Just in case someone else had this problem. I'll be filing bugs ( or at least warnings of ) with Debian and Ximians bugzilla for future reference. Steve -- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."' - Isaac Asimov
