F10 evolution hangs on imap after a few hours

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 22:22 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 05:35 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Craig White wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:13 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > >> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:58:30 -0700
> > >> Craig White wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Anyone else seeing this from evolution-2.24.5-1.fc10.i386 - after an
> > >>> hour or two on imap connection, I click on a message and the screen
> > >>> simply says 'Formatting message' but never goes further and even closing
> > >>> Evolution seems to be hung (it does a purge of all deleted messages per
> > >>> settings but never actually quits until I force it).
> > >> Not that specific behaviour, but evolution is pretty much impossible
> > >> to leave running regardless of which kind of mail connection you use.
> > >> Something somewhere starts leaking like a sieve and it consumes all
> > >> resources on the system. I gave up on evolution and started using
> > >> claws-mail - it is vastly more reliable.
> > > ----
> > > I've been using evolution for many, many years and it has its bad
> > > versions, its very bad versions and some versions work pretty well.
> > 
> > I share this history, but ... I experienced the evolution in FC10 to be 
> > amongst the worst and unstable versions of evolution ever ;)
> > 
> > My conclusion: I stopped using evolution and switched to using thunderbird.
> ----
> It's been pretty awful in Fedora 10 - I suppose that most aren't using
> evolution these days because there aren't many griping about it.
> 
> for what it's worth, since I turned off TLS on IMAP, I haven't hung yet
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still haven't hung since I turned off TLS and Evolution has been up and
running for at least 13 hours now. I couldn't get more than 2 hours
before with TLS turned on before it hung for the last few weeks. I'll
probably run another day with it turned off to see if it hangs tomorrow.

Craig