Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-08 Thread Peter Barnes
> - Original Message - > From: "James White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails > Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:03:29 -0400 > > > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 01:17 -0400, Igor A. Nestero

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-07 Thread James White
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 01:17 -0400, Igor A. Nesterov wrote: > I am not here on this forum to give advices, but in my opinion for > people not accustomed to fixing and troubleshooting software it would be > a good idea to switch to Thunderbird. It's not to say that Thunderbird > is "better". But from

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-07 Thread Erik Slagter
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 01:03 -0400, Igor A. Nesterov wrote: > 256 MB. It should be quite enough for a small-footprint xfce4 (I do not > run GNOME), a dozen of xterms and one mail program. > > Disk activity and even desktop irresponsiveness is not an issue here. > They can be to some extent explaine

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-06 Thread Igor A. Nesterov
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:10 +0100, Peter Barnes wrote: > But it's bad for anyone like me running a business. Perhaps > Evolution is not robust enough and I should be using something > like Thunderbird? Peter, I am not here on this forum to give advices, but in my opinion for people not accu

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-06 Thread Igor A. Nesterov
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 14:38 -0500, Mike Dickson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:26 +0200, guenther wrote: > > > > I am using > > > evolution-2.6.0-1 > > > on > > > 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386 > > > GNU/Linux > > > > > > running in VMware Workstation 4.5.2

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-06 Thread James White
Heh, yes. Once you see how slick it works - you become addicted. You gather up the questions in the discussion forum - assign moderators and then publish both questions and answers in the "Known Issues" section of the wiki. Support becomes so much easier. James On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:56 -040

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
So, a serial Support Wiki suggester eh? We'll have to keep an eye on you :-) poc On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 17:54 -0400, James White wrote: > Um... Alzheimers? > > Sorry, I have been having this same discussion in two places. > > James > > > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 16:29 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan w

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-05 Thread James White
Um... Alzheimers? Sorry, I have been having this same discussion in two places. James On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 16:29 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Why are you talking about Abiword? > > poc > > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 15:28 -0400, James White wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:08 -0400, Pat

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Why are you talking about Abiword? poc On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 15:28 -0400, James White wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:08 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > This is actually an excellent idea. It remains to be seen whether I (or > > anyone else) can overcome the barrier of inertia that stops

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-05 Thread James White
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:08 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > This is actually an excellent idea. It remains to be seen whether I (or > anyone else) can overcome the barrier of inertia that stops us from > doing it :-) Can anyone say how many Abiword users there ARE out there? I think that the f

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
This is actually an excellent idea. It remains to be seen whether I (or anyone else) can overcome the barrier of inertia that stops us from doing it :-) poc On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 08:23 -0400, James White wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 00:17 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > 14. A real manu

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 01:10 +0200, guenther wrote: > [ large dump of random requests from bugzilla snipped ] > > > 13. Make "Hide Read messages" a toggle, like "Hide Deleted messages". Or > > (less radical) a keyboard accelerator for hiding read messages. I use > > this a *lot* for some folders. >

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-05 Thread Erik Slagter
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 00:47 +0200, guenther wrote: > Regarding your undo feature: I know this is a long standing request in > bugzilla. But interestingly, I (personally) never ever wished for such a > thing. Since I have "deleted" mail visible [1], undoing this is like one > click or keyboard short

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 00:47 +0200, guenther wrote: > Regarding your undo feature: I know this is a long standing request in > bugzilla. But interestingly, I (personally) never ever wished for such > a > thing. Since I have "deleted" mail visible [1], undoing this is like > one > click or keyboard s

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-04 Thread guenther
[ large dump of random requests from bugzilla snipped ] > 13. Make "Hide Read messages" a toggle, like "Hide Deleted messages". Or > (less radical) a keyboard accelerator for hiding read messages. I use > this a *lot* for some folders. For a very similar thing I use Saved Searches. One of them: D

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-04 Thread guenther
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:31 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Actually, you can't please all the people all the time, but that's not a > reason for not trying to. That of course is correct. And the devs definitely are trying to please (well, almost) anyone. :) > I use Evo as my mail client ev

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-03 Thread James White
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 00:17 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 14. A real manual. Not a tutorial. An actual user-readable reference > manual that's kept in synch with Evo versions. Great idea. And finally, here's something that YOU can do to contribute! Start a WIKI - call it the "Evolution

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:55 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:31 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 08:54 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > Let me just add this. For every 10 person that uses Evo, I would say > > > that approx 80% will find it Good and

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:31 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 08:54 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Let me just add this. For every 10 person that uses Evo, I would say > > that approx 80% will find it Good and the other 10% will find it Not > > and the othe 10% just doesn't

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 08:54 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:15 +0200, guenther wrote: > > > But it seems to have got slower even though it has received only a > few > > > thousand emails (which is not many for a business, even a one-man > > > business from home). Then it crashe

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:15 +0200, guenther wrote: > > But it seems to have got slower even though it has received only a few > > thousand emails (which is not many for a business, even a one-man > > business from home). Then it crashed and now I have no access to my > > emails and no solution as y

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-01 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:56 +0200, guenther wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 14:38 -0500, Mike Dickson wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:26 +0200, guenther wrote: > > > > > > I am using > > > > evolution-2.6.0-1 > > > > on > > > > 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-01 Thread guenther
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 14:38 -0500, Mike Dickson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:26 +0200, guenther wrote: > > > > I am using > > > evolution-2.6.0-1 > > > on > > > 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386 > > > GNU/Linux > > > > > > running in VMware Workstation 4.5.2

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Dickson
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:26 +0200, guenther wrote: > > I am using > > evolution-2.6.0-1 > > on > > 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386 > > GNU/Linux > > > > running in VMware Workstation 4.5.2 > > Well, I guess that would be why. This sure limits the resources for

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-01 Thread guenther
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 17:47 -0400, Igor A. Nesterov wrote: > Today I have received rather big mail. It was of 80,000 text lines, > which gives us about 6MB, but other than that it was pure ASCII text. > It's automatically generated message with some sort of alarms, so > sometimes it happens. This m

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-01 Thread guenther
> But it seems to have got slower even though it has received only a few > thousand emails (which is not many for a business, even a one-man > business from home). Then it crashed and now I have no access to my > emails and no solution as yet. No-one on the Ubuntu forums was able to > help me - in

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Igor A. Nesterov wrote: > Today I have received rather big mail. It was of 80,000 text lines, > which gives us about 6MB, but other than that it was pure ASCII text. > It's automatically generated message with some sort of alarms, so > sometimes it hap

Re: [Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-06-01 Thread Peter Barnes
> - Original Message - > From: "Igor A. Nesterov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "evolution-list@gnome.org" > Subject: [Evolution] evolution and large mails > Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:47:57 -0400 > > > Today I have received rather big m

[Evolution] evolution and large mails

2006-05-31 Thread Igor A. Nesterov
Today I have received rather big mail. It was of 80,000 text lines, which gives us about 6MB, but other than that it was pure ASCII text. It's automatically generated message with some sort of alarms, so sometimes it happens. This message has practically killed Evolution and in fact the whole deskt