[KLUG Members] Re: Evoluion 1.2.1 -- hmmm, may be an site issue ...

[Adam Williams]

>>Yes, I had Ximian update it automatically. It seems to start up a little
>>faster than 1.2.0. I haven't noticed any other improvements, but I
>>haven't really tried to put the package through its paces.
>I just "downgraded" to Evolution 1.0.8 by going to RedHat 8.0.  Although
>I'm not having quite as many problems as RedHat 7.3 + Ximian Evolution
>1.2.0, I'm still having problems.  BTW, I'm using POP and storing
>locally.
>As such, I think my issues are more with the massive amount of mail I
>have, and the fact that I'm running over NFS, than the actual versions. 
>I still blame the fault of this on the implementations in Evolution, but
>it's obvious that I'm still having issues.
>...
>I think my savior might be to still POP, but use IMAP stores on a local
>server (instead of Mbox stores over NFS), but I haven't trie dit.

Thats what I did at home.  Originally I was using Sylpheed, which is
maildir.  But do to massive amount of mail it was *SO* slow, and the
beast would devour thousands of file handles and bloat to consume
enormous amounts of RAM.

I switched to local IMAP (UW), and back to mbox, and it solved my
problem.  Whether UW is just more intelligent, or dividing it over
multiple processes helped... whatever, it was a huge improvement in
responsiveness.

I've read some similair complaints about CAMEL (the mail backend of
evolution).  And from the docs it really looks to be focused on IMAP. 
Various "formats" (IMAP, POP, MBOX, etc...) are handled via plugins, but
IMAP is clearly the first love and focus of the maintainers
(understandable).

I've gone through several mail clients since sylpheed, before coming to
rest on evolution, and IMAP was very nice for that as well - I didn't
have to do anything.

Cyrus IMAP is probably over kill for most home installs,  but I can open
an archive of almost all the KLUG messages ever - instantly.  Whereas UW
sits and thinks about that one for a bit.  It depends on how extremely
huge mailboxes are.