Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Pete Biggs
>> >> I seem to remember a recent thread on just this topic. To recap what I >> said then: your mail system may be happy with large attachments, but you >> can't assume that every relay in the path to any random destination is >> equally happy. > > Why should they care ? Your mail doesn't come t

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 22:48 +0200, Thomas Prost wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 16.05.2013, 13:13 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:52 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 10:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> the .pdf sour

Re: [Evolution] About performance

2013-05-16 Thread George Reeke
> Am Montag, den 13.05.2013, 08:30 -0400 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: trimmed > > Or people with *unbelievably* ancient versions. Every time I see > > someone complaining about 2.32 or even 2.28... my jaw drops. I just > > don't get it - why do that to yourself? > > 'coz it runs and does al

Re: [Evolution] About performance

2013-05-16 Thread Thomas Prost
Am Montag, den 13.05.2013, 08:30 -0400 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: > On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 10:05 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > But man this is kind of the same problem of the known kernel IO problem > > > that also I reported and nobody not much people trust just because they > > > didn't see

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Thomas Prost
Am Donnerstag, den 16.05.2013, 13:13 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:52 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 10:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > > >> the .pdf source is indeed there (and the mail file is huge) > > > > Define

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:52 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 10:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > >> the .pdf source is indeed there (and the mail file is huge) > > > Define huge. 1Mb? 5Mb? 100Mb? 10Gb? > > > around 15Mb > > Personally I wouldn't trust an

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 16:43 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:54 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > It would require dark arts to make a non-root user with a home > > directory of "/root". > > It's not what the user needs to do, it's enough to give the user > permission to u

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Milan Crha
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 19:19 +0200, mario wrote: > I suffer the following issue. > It happens that I am unable to open mails with .pdf attachments I have > sent. If I try, Evo hangs and I have to kill the process. > > Where do I need to look at? > (I am on Evo 3.4.1, Linux Fedora 17) Hi,

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:54 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > It would require dark arts to make a non-root user with a home > directory of "/root". It's not what the user needs to do, it's enough to give the user permission to use the path and only to tell Evolution to use this path, simply mak

Re: [Evolution] [Bulk] Re: attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:11 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 11:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:29 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > Note, if I go to the > > > > folder /root/.local/share/evolution/mail/local//cur > > > > and open the mail file, >

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 10:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > >> the .pdf source is indeed there (and the mail file is huge) > > Define huge. 1Mb? 5Mb? 100Mb? 10Gb? > > around 15Mb > Personally I wouldn't trust any mail system with that size of > attachment. Personally I, and 600+ othe

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 11:00 +0200, mario chiari wrote: > > the .pdf source is indeed there (and the mail file is > huge). > Define huge. 1Mb? 5Mb? 100Mb? 10Gb? > around 15Mb That is not huge. A 15Mb attachment shouldn't be a problem. > >If you send it to > >yourself,

Re: [Evolution] [Bulk] Re: attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 11:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:29 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > Note, if I go to the > > > folder /root/.local/share/evolution/mail/local//cur > > > and open the mail file, > > > > You're running evolution as root!! > > Not for sure. The OP coul

Re: [Evolution] [Bulk] Re: attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:29 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Note, if I go to the > > folder /root/.local/share/evolution/mail/local//cur > > and open the mail file, > > You're running evolution as root!! Not for sure. The OP could use this path for a user too. I agree that some "solutions" are not

Re: [Evolution] error msg, should I worry

2013-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 11:08 +0200, mario chiari wrote: > [root@localhost ~]# evolution My apologies, the OP does run Evolution as root. Mario, do yourself a favour, not only for security reasons, run Evolution as user. Some GNOME stuff by some distros default often can't be launched by root, resp.

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > the .pdf source is indeed there (and the mail file is > huge). > > Define huge. 1Mb? 5Mb? 100Mb? 10Gb? > around 15Mb Personally I wouldn't trust any mail system with that size of attachment. > > But also, is it just the sent m

Re: [Evolution] error msg, should I worry

2013-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 11:08 +0200, mario chiari wrote: > [root@localhost ~]# evolution My apologies, the OP does run Evolution as root. Mario, do yourself a favour, not only for security reasons, run Evolution as user. Some GNOME stuff by some distros default often can't be launched by root, resp.

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:29 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Note, if I go to the > > folder /root/.local/share/evolution/mail/local//cur > > and open the mail file, > > You're running evolution as root!! Not for sure. The OP could use this path for a user too. I agree that some "solutions" are not

[Evolution] error msg, should I worry

2013-05-16 Thread mario chiari
Hi do you something wrong? Should I fix something? thks mario [root@localhost ~]# evolution Migrating cached data Migrating config data Migrating local user data mv /root/.evolution/mail/local/folders.db /root/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/folders.db FAILED: Destination file already exist

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread mario chiari
2013/5/16 Pete Biggs > > > > the .pdf source is indeed there (and the mail file is huge). > Define huge. 1Mb? 5Mb? 100Mb? 10Gb? > around 15Mb > ... > > But also, is it just the sent mail that's a problem - does the person > receiving it at the other end have problems? NO > If you send it to

Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

2013-05-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > The issue seems to be with LARGE .pdf file, indeed only with outgoing > ones. > > Note, if I go to the > folder /root/.local/share/evolution/mail/local//cur > and open the mail file, You're running evolution as root!! Why on earth would you do that. Rule 1 on computers, never, ever use