On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 15:27 -0500, Darren Govoni wrote: > On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 15:19 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 21:04 +0100, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote: > > > Le lundi 20 décembre 2010 à 09:14 -0500, Darren Govoni a écrit : > > > > 1) I now get frequent "error storing folders", "error generating > > > > message list" > > > > 2) It's so slow. It is always "Storing folder", taking almost minutes > > > > to complete. Its on average 5-8x slower > > > > downloading, storing and viewing messages. > > > > 3) Its very buggy. When new messages arrive, they no longer show up in > > > > the folder I'm viewing. > > > > I have to click another folder and click back to see them. > > > > 4) For the first time ever, it corrupted my email files and I had to > > > > recover from backup. > > > I had these issues until I understood that the deleted messages are not > > > deleted. They are simply hidden. Thus the mailboxes become huge and > > > unusable. There is no automatic purge of deleted messages. This is a > > > flaw in the design of Evolution. > > That would make no sense for a local desktop application - to have to > > have a database instance to store [cache] mail? > There are numerous embeddable SQL transactional databases that provide > fast, reliable > and ACID properties that would greatly improve the speed and > durability of something > important like email. > Since its now clear that Evolution has scaling issues,
I disagree. > moving in this design direction should be a good thing. Have you tried them with large amounts of data, with BLOBs [which is essentially what an e-mail message is]? In my experience they fall down, *hard*. The meta-data databases in current versions uses SQLite [I believe]; the actual messages are stored in the filesystem [1] (which seems reasonable to me). I'd agree that anytime the meta-data database gets whacked it is a bug. [1] I don't recall how; if they are mbox [which might have a 2GB issue] or if they [the developers] switched to maildir or mh or something else. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
