Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:32:14 -0700 From: Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com> To: Frank Jahnke <frank.jahnke@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Evolution Issues Message-ID: <1398187934.6440.103.camel@btw.pki2.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Brt2%2BqG0Ht3ZrVkmTNyWs4Mtgz%2BS%2BgO2KMhBe1qi6-6xmn4zg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2Brt2%2BqG0Ht3ZrVkmTNyWs4Mtgz%2BS%2BgO2KMhBe1qi6-6xmn4zg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 10:23 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: > I have been using Evolution since version 1.1.99, and am trying to > consolidate email messages from disparate computers into once place. I've > run into a number of problems and I have had difficulty finding answers in > the usual places. So I ask them here, as the BSD Forum readers seemed no to > know any of the answers. > > 1. Does Evolution have a future on FreeBSD (or elsewhere)? I know that > Gnome 2 support is winding down, and I've been using Mate mostly with > success. Is Evolution too is fading, so that my time would best be used > with another POP mail client? > I hope it has a future. I've been using it for a long time. That said, the FreeBSD version is old but my understanding is the newer version is dependent on GNOME3 libraries. > 2. Does Evolution have a size limit on any of the files (Inbox, Sent, etc.) > it uses? Some of mine exceed 4GB -- the smaller ones on the order of 1 GB > are easy to manipulate and work properly. The larger ones invariably have > indexing issues, and I am unable to delete files from Trash. And yes, I do > intend to break up the large files once I get them in one place if it is > possible. It is also possible that some of the entries have been corrupted. > I have issues on large number of mailbox messages -- slow, and my mailboxes are on ZFS volumes with SSD caches. > 3. Does the entry order in the Inbox (for example) make any difference? I > notice that even on files that can be manipulated, sometimes there are > indexing issues when sorting by date. This particular Inbox file has dates > that are not in order. > > 4. Does the Evolution file import function append the imported file to an > existing one, or does it overwrite the old file? > > 5. Is there a good editor for dealing with large files? I have tried to use > vi, and while it is able to read the file and search it (even if it is on > the order of 5 GB), deleting text from a location to the file beginning > resulted in a vi crash. > > The system is FreeBSD Release 10.0, 64 bits, Mate 1.6.1, Evolution 2.32.1 > (gnome keyring enabled) given 10 GB memory/300GB disk running in a VMware > Workstation 7.0 VM under Windows 7 (up-to-date) 64 bit computer with 20 GB > memory. Everything else on the FreeBSD system seems to work fine. I have > tried to use procmail/formail to clean the Inbox up without success. > > Thank you in advance for your comments! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com>
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