On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 01:46 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 00:50 -0400, jim wrote: > > Thanks Patrick. I may end up making this icon myself as it seems to > > lock up all the time for me. Does anyone have any explanations or > > solution to this Evolution instability?? > > I've had this a few releases ago, but since Evo 2.20 and especially 2.22 > I haven't seen anything like this anymore. I have my Evo running for > days or weeks and it works very well, with only a few minor glitches > every now and then. I haven't upgraded to 2.24 yet. > > I'm using it to read both IMAP and Exchange email accounts, and I'm > running Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) FWIW.
I imagine that's the experience of most people, or something would have been done about it by now. I have one low-traffic POP account on my ISP's server, a main IMAP account on my university server, and a Gmail IMAP account with a lot of list traffic. There are known issues (or rather questions) about Gmail's IMAP implementation, and my local connectivity isn't that good (1Mbps ADSL; upping it to 2Mbps would cost 4 times as much!). Any or all of these things could be contributory factors, but I've often seen the status bar showing multiple "Checking for new mail" messages simulataneously, as if Evo had suddenly gone to sleep. The UI is still responsive but I can't open any messages, no matter what account or folder they're in. When that happens, I know it's never going to wake up and the only solution is --force-shutdown. (BTW, it would be useful if the "Checking for new mail" messages mentioned which server was being checked. I guess I should report this as an enhancement request.) Once in a while I've tried running with the DEBUG option set, but nothing jumps out. I suppose I should take the time to do this more systematically :-( poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
