diet for evolution

[David Nielsen]

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