On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 09:44 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I really wish that someone would inject some life into Evo. I've been
> looking at a gray Evo screen for 8 years. How about a little color ?

There's blue, and yellow, and green, and red, and orange...

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On 04/22/2010 08:44 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I've been using Evolution as my only email client since 2002.
> I agree that it has a number of shortcomings.
>
> Its been an up and down road for sure but one thing that I can say is
> that I have not lost a single email in the 8 years I have been using
> it.
>
> I think this relates to the fact that Evo using plain text files to
> store emails. Prior to Evo, Outlook used to lose my emails and crash on
> a regular basis.
>
> I really wish that someone would inject some life into Evo. I've been
> looking at a gray Evo screen for 8 years. How about a little color ?
>
>
I keep all my mail on servers, so I guess I really haven't given
evolution a chance to lose it.

One thing I have seen it do, however, is get its caches confused and
refuse to show new mail. This happened just this last week where mail
that was delivered to my mailbox last Friday morning didn't show up in
the reader until Tuesday afternoon. The logs show it was delivered to
the mailbox, but for some reason evolution wouldn't show it despite
showing all sorts of other new mail that arrived over the weekend. I've
hit this a number of times, and the work around was to delete all the
disk caches and let them rebuild. Of course, you have to realize that
some emails are not being shown to you before you know enough to restart.

On the calendaring side, on a number of occasions the Palm sync got
messed up and duplicated all of my calendar events. For a while, each
time I sync'd it would double the duplicates, causing 1, then 2, then 4,
then 8 copies of each event. That was a royal pain to undo.


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On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 10:03 -0700, Wayne Feick wrote:

>
> One thing I have seen it do, however, is get its caches confused and
> refuse to show new mail.

I have never seen that in many years of using Evolution.


> On the calendaring side, on a number of occasions the Palm sync got
> messed up and duplicated all of my calendar events. For a while, each
> time I sync'd it would double the duplicates, causing 1, then 2, then 4,
> then 8 copies of each event. That was a royal pain to undo.

I have definitely seen this. It is so bad that I cannot use my Linux box
as my primary base for my Palm. I have only gotten syncing to work
reliably if I do it only in one direction, so I use a Windows VM as the
master, and sync the Palm onto Linux one way ("Copy from PDA"). This one
is REALLY annoying and it has been there through several Fedora
releases.

However, I doubt if this is an Evolution bug, it is more likely a bug in
gpilotd or lower level pilot-link stuff, which means any other high
level user interface program that uses the same lower level backing
software will probably exhibit the same thing.

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