On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 06:35 -0600, Todd Ness wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 08:23 -0400, Rob Cambra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I represent a company with 600+ end users. We are actively seeking > > replacements for many Microsoft technologies such as Outlook/Exchange > > and MS Office. We are currently testing OpenOffice.org and Evolution > > with select users and the IT Staff. > > > > The biggest complaint we see with Evolution after one month of use is > > the apparent inability of Evolution to properly handle HTML-based > > e-mail with Internet content. For instance, when a user receives an > > HTML message with graphics and other content fetched from Internet > > locations, the reading pane (lower right pane) freezes. At this > > point, you can't use the reading pane anymore and Evolution can't be > > closed out. The only option to return Evolution to normal > > functionality is to log off the user. > > > > We've seen this behavior on Ubuntu 7.10 using Evolution as an Exchange > > client. This is meant as constructive feedback because we want your > > technology to succeed. > Some things I have found to make evolution a little better. > give it a wrapper script similar to this. > #!/bin/bash > > export EVOLUTION_COUNT_TRASH=1 > ulimit -n 1024 > exec /usr/bin/evolution > > the file limit helped a lot.
Interesting. I don't think EVOLUTION_COUNT_TRASH is relevant here however. > Also, instead of logging the user out you can open a shell and run: > pkill -f evolution > and then start your client up again. The canonical way to kill Evo is "evolution --force-shutdown", but of course "pkill" is easier to type. Is there a difference? I've no idea, and the online help is silent. > I have been asking several questions the last 2 weeks about why > evolution freezes as well and have not seen much help. > I would assume that they will need more information such as the version > of evolution you are running. > run this command in a terminal... > rpm -qa|grep evolution The OP implied he's using Ubuntu, so no rpm. Within Evo, Help->About gives you the version info. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
