On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 02:32 -0800, Evan Klitzke wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 12:11 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > I've recently upgraded to 2.8 (upgrade Suse to 10.2) and found that I
> > still get about 3 server backend crashes a day.
> > But after experimenting some more (again) I found that if I disable the
> > "auto" filtering of received Inbox messages, and do it by hand (Ctrl-A,
> > Ctrl-Y), I get a much more stable Evo.
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> > (I have about 20 filters)
> 
> I don't know what your situation is, but I am assuming that you are
> accessing an IMAP account? If that is the case, and you are an
> administrator on the server, you can configure the mail server to use
> procmail/maildrop, and then do server-side filtering that way.

Or use Sieve of your server supports it. Unfortunately Evo doesn't give
you any help with either of these solutions.

> A less intrusive way is to use the popfile IMAP module [1]. I have not
> used popfile myself, but apparently you configure it to classify your
> mail (based on bayesian classification), and it connects to your IMAP
> account at regular intervals and sorts your mail. You can use this
> approach as a regular user.
> 
> These solutions may not be optimal, but if you are experiencing
> instability in Evolution it is probably the best that you will do.
> 
> [1] 
> http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExperimentalModules/ImapInstructions

However at
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExperimentalModules/ImapClients 
(bottom of the page) it says that Evo is not recommended for use with the IMAP 
module of popfile. Note that this page is over two years old, so who knows ...

poc

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