all of these issues have already been resolved in CVS if you use the experimental IMAP4rev1 plugin rather than the IMAP plugin.
Jeff On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 14:23 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 14:13 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > > Jay Kreps wrote: > > > > >Right, but put yourself in the position of the user. One email client > > >produces irritating and useless error messages at regular intervals, > > >whereas all others work fine. I doubt any reasonable person would > > >conclude that it was the server that was broken; they would probably > > >just use a different email client. > > > > > >I am trying not to be a helpless user here, <....snip> > > > > > Related to the recent threads regarding Evolution and IMAP issues, my > > situation was similar to Jay's. > > > > I've recently had to switch from POP3 to IMAP (a Notes IMAP server) and > > Evolution (v2.0.1) just isn't playing well with it. Thunderbird and > > Mozilla seem to have no problems with it but Evo acts as if it's > > constantly losing it's connection to the IMAP server. It sits there > > pinging it, or scanning the folders forever, etc... very slow to > > respond. Changing folders is enough to send it into a lost state. I > > had to do things like hit Send/Receive in order to re-establish > > connections or worst case kill Evo and restart several times a day. > > Filters also were not working properly on the IMAP side but I'm not sure > > it was or wasn't related to server connection problems. > > > > It could very well be a broken Notes server, but the other mail tools > > aren't affected, or at least they deal with it somehow. There are many > > things about Evo that I prefer, but in the end it wasn't usable if it > > couldn't talk to the server so I had to switch to another mail tool > > (t-bird). > ---- > I think there is some issues with Evolution up to 2.02 with IMAP as it > is not only slow but seems to really hammer the IMAP server pretty hard > too. At least, that's what I've been experiencing but it appears that > they are doing a lot of changes to evolution. > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.novell.com
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