On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:46 -0600, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > There has been an increasing number of problems with the Maildir support > in Evolution during late 2008 and early 2009. With the latest release in > Fedora 10, it's almost unusable. > > To summarize the three most annoying bugs with maildir (yes, these and > others have been filed in bugzilla):
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571206 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573177 > When you move mail into a maildir folder from an mbox folder, it > frequently vanishes because the maildir index isn't updated. > > If you receive new mail in a maildir folder while Evolution is running, > you can't see it even though the folder shows the right count of new > emails for the folder. The mail files are actually present in the > physical maildir directory, so presumably this is another problem with > the maildir index becoming corrupt. I had seen this problem before, too. I then updated to 2.24.5 and it seemed to be gone, but just now it happened again. I had to quit Evolution, remove folders.db and restart to see the new emails. > Assuming you manage to get some mail into a maildir folder and actually > see it, if you decided to delete it, it is only hidden from view. > File->empty trash doesn't expunge the file from the disk. This leads to > wasted disk space over time. The only way actually delete deleted email > that I've found is to go through the maildir folders one at a time and > select folder->expunge on each one. But with hundreds of folders, this > takes a lot of time. I usually expunge individual folders, so this doesn't affect me. > It seems like no one is maintaining maildir support any more. Should > maildir users be looking for alternate email program? I hope not. offlineimap + Evolution is a very useful combination that I depend on nowadays. -- Bye, Patrick Ohly -- patrick.o...@gmx.de http://www.estamos.de/ _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
