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
> 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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