Evolution Issues

[Dennis Glatting]

On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 10:23 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote:
> I have been using Evolution since version 1.1.99, and am trying to
> consolidate email messages from disparate computers into once place. I've
> run into a number of problems and I have had difficulty finding answers in
> the usual places. So I ask them here, as the BSD Forum readers seemed no to
> know any of the answers.
> 
> 1. Does Evolution have a future on FreeBSD (or elsewhere)? I know that
> Gnome 2 support is winding down, and I've been using Mate mostly with
> success. Is Evolution too is fading, so that my time would best be used
> with another POP mail client?
> 

I hope it has a future. I've been using it for a long time. That said,
the FreeBSD version is old but my understanding is the newer version is
dependent on GNOME3 libraries.


> 2. Does Evolution have a size limit on any of the files (Inbox, Sent, etc.)
> it uses? Some of mine exceed 4GB -- the smaller ones on the order of 1 GB
> are easy to manipulate and work properly. The larger ones invariably have
> indexing issues, and I am unable to delete files from Trash. And yes, I do
> intend to break up the large files once I get them in one place if it is
> possible.  It is also possible that some of the entries have been corrupted.
> 

I have issues on large number of mailbox messages -- slow, and my
mailboxes are on ZFS volumes with SSD caches.


> 3. Does the entry order in the Inbox (for example) make any difference? I
> notice that even on files that can be manipulated, sometimes there are
> indexing issues when sorting by date. This particular Inbox file has dates
> that are not in order.
> 
> 4. Does the Evolution file import function append the imported file to an
> existing one, or does it overwrite the old file?
> 
> 5. Is there a good editor for dealing with large files? I have tried to use
> vi, and while it is able to read the file and search it (even if it is on
> the order of 5 GB), deleting text from a location to the file beginning
> resulted in a vi crash.
> 
> The system is FreeBSD Release 10.0, 64 bits, Mate 1.6.1, Evolution 2.32.1
> (gnome keyring enabled) given 10 GB memory/300GB disk running in a VMware
> Workstation 7.0 VM under Windows 7 (up-to-date) 64 bit computer with 20 GB
> memory. Everything else on the FreeBSD system seems to work fine. I have
> tried to use procmail/formail to clean the Inbox up without success.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your comments!
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Dennis Glatting <dg at pki2.com>