On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 13:23, tester wrote: > Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I was trying to migrate from Kmail to evolution and I found the following > >problem. > > > >My mail folders are on a VFAT partition at Kmail and they work fine. I wanted > >to do the same with the evolution ones. > > > >First I needed to migrate ALL my kmail folders to evolution which is VERY > >painfull as you have to go ONE BY ONE, but it can be done. (If someone knows > >how to automate I would like to know how) > > > >The main problem comes when I try to access mail folders at the VFAT > >partition, the system complaints when I try chmods or chowns on VFAT becuase > >VFAT does not have owner or permissions AND evolution tries to do some chmods > >or chowns cause it gets blocked when trying to access those folders on the > >VFAT partition. > > > >Do you know... > > > >A) How can I change the /etc/fstab to mount the vfat so to ignore chmods or > >chowns intead of giving an error? > > > >or > > > >B) How can I make evolution work on a vfat partition where it cannot change > >permissions or ownerships? > > > >Thanks in advance! > > > >Jose > > > > Unless you want to spend much time fixing things, avoid evolution as a > mail client. It still has significant stability problems. Once I had > over 100 messages, the reply button would freeze things, and I would > have to kill processes one by one in an xterm to expinge evolution then > restart X and even after all that, it still would freeze repeatedly. It > is better than Aethera, which sets up nicely then segfaults, but not by > much. > > Civileme > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well Civileme, I have to disagree with you on this one (and it's certainly a rarity). I've been using Evolution as my contact manager / email client / scheduler for quite some time now and found it to be quite stable. As some sort of proof: I was away from the this list and a few others for a few days without turning off delivery. After coming back and hitting "send and receive" I had __700__ messages (including your own). Evolution handled them smoothly and without a hitch. The only instablility I find is in the contact manager occasionally hiccuping and I'll have to restart the whole application. And also when I forget to delete the trash messages and end up with __8000__ in there. (It's better to expunge each folder individually). /curtis ><> BTW, evolution comes with a handy script to kill it called "killev". It may only be in the newer versions, but I haven't touched it in a long time...;) Do a urpmi evolution (on cooker) and try it out again. -- --**--**--** Current Linux kernel 2.4.13-12mdk uptime: 1 day 16 hours 26 minutes.
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