diet for evolution
David Nielsen
david at lovesunix.net
Sat Jul 22 20:17:37 UTC 2006
lør, 22 07 2006 kl. 20:16 +0200, skrev Erwin Rol:
> On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 13:33 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 13:20 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> > > David Nielsen wrote:
> > > > I'd like to mention that the default Evolution setup in FC loads the
> > > > Spamassassin plugin which on my machine at least takes up 80megs of
> > > > memory, replacing that with the bogofilter plugin turned out to be a
> > > > good decision - I blogged a bit about that adventure*
> >
> > > If you think this is a good default solution, would you mind getting
> > > this filed a RFE in Red Hat bugzilla? The evolution maintainer probably
> > > needs to look at this.
> >
> > I will look into it. Spamassassin has infuriated me in the past with
> > its obscene memory consumption. It may be too late for FC6, though.
>
> A big problem with evolution is also its crappy imap support. imap to a
> large (10000+ emails multifolder imap server) over anything less than a
> 100Mbit network is almost impossible. On the other hand sylpheed has no
> problems with a 128kbit line.
Overall Evolution just needs to die in favor of a more modular approach,
hopefully Dates, Contacts, Tinymail and Evolution-data-server-dbus will
be able to make a decent replacement set of tools soon.
The whole monster groupware application is so unsexy, broken and
bloated.
- David Nielsen
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