All day long I kept thinking, "This can't be right ... I haven't seen one thing land in my Inbox all day, and I haven't received one SPAM at all." I even sent 2 test email to my home addy to test it, and they never appeared, and they never bounced.
So, I get home from work, and some friends arrive for dinner. A case of beer (give or take a 6) and they leave. I turn on the monitor, and a ps -ax | grep evol reveals that Evolution is still running even though I x'd out of it last night (as I do every night). There were so many processes, it was faster for me to log out of X and log back in than it was to attempt to kill -9 everthing.
Upon re-login, all of my missing email was there. Apparently x'ing out of Evolution isn't a guarantee. It may still be be running in the background, siliently collecting your email ....
I've been running Evolution as my primary mailer since May or June. (Mac died in April and I literally didn't respond to email for two months.) I've seen a lot of things, and many times I find I have to shut it down and restart to get mail. Fortunately I'm on one high traffic mailing list, so I can check that folder and know I need to restart if I haven't received anything in about four hours.
I'd say Evolution is not quite ready for primetime, yet, though I have high hopes it will be improving. They do seem to keep making new releases.
My biggest gripe is Evolution takes forever to open a new window on my low-memory laptop. Replying to a message, composing a new message, or just double-clicking on a message to read it in its own window instead of the preview pane involves making the click and wandering off to find a short task to do while I wait.
Re:Me, too
shockme on 2002-08-29T14:55:12
Ditto on the new window thing. Often I'll click on Reply or New Mail, and it takes just long enough that I start to think that maybe I didn't click it. So, I click it again, the first one pops up, and as I'm typing the email, the second one appears.They have really made some great strides, though. I can remember trying it way back when it was first released, and it (predictably) sucked. I'm more of a mutt user, but Evolution has made a believer out of me.
The only good thing (IMNSHO) about my department's eventual migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 is the Evolution plugin for 2000. Once I get that operational, I really won't have much more use for my VMWare stuff.
I haven't heard of anyone experiencing your issue of having to restart to get mail. That would annoy the hell out of me, though.
Re:Me, too
jdavidb on 2002-08-29T16:43:47
I haven't heard of anyone experiencing your issue of having to restart to get mail.
That's after keeping it up for days.
