Re: [Sheflug] Re: Gosh it *is* quiet!! (it might not be ? )

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On 21 Jan 2001 00:42:45 +0000, Richard wrote:
> > I torched my main desktop today & rebuilt it completely (long story,
> > mainly, I was bored & didn't have any data which needed saving, I backup
> > onto zips :). I finally got Evolution working under Debian 2.2.2
> 
> mmmm... are there tech support examples available ??  

Yep. Track testing, track Ximian / Helix Code. Having a Helix desktop,
do:

apt-get install evolution

Run it. Watch it crash :( Then do an 'apt-get install libxml1'.

Run it. Be amazed :)

BTW, I don't know if the testing track is *absolutely* necessary - it
might be that if you use stable, you don't need to update the libxml, I
could have caused those problems myself. I'm only doing it because it
made upgrading to 2.4 much easier - I compiled 2.4 from source, but got
the updated modutils / e2fsprogs / pppd from the testing pool.

> Last I saw was
> Evolution only used IMAP and if you want to use that then you might as
> well torch our own read end :))  Well, from the point of network
> security examples that is :)


Well, personally I prefer IMAP to POP, but anyway, it supports either.
My personal setup just has it watch my UNIX mailbox, which gets filled
via fetchmail, and sends email via the local system, which uses exim.
Evolution pretty much expects to be able to contact any server you've
told it about, so you need to run it in the manner I do if you have a
dial-up machine. At work, I have it talk to the servers directly, but
I'm on a lovely internet connection there so I can do that :))

And if I can just go on a bit about Evolution a bit more .. ! ... I
really think it's magic. At work, I only really get internal emails, so
I've not bothered doing any filtering before. VFolders are a superb
idea, and the contact management looks like it might even rival Outlook
at some point. Compared to Balsa / KMail and all the other gui muas,
Evolution seems to beat them hands-down. Possibly Magellan / Atheria
might come close, I've not used them so I can't say, but I'm not sure
I'd be wanting to support The Kompany by using their software anyway. 

One bad thing about Evolution: at work, it often crashes when emails are
opened with large attachments. Don't know why, I think it's a problem
with the display widget though. But, it handles HTML mail beautifully :)

Cheers,

Alex.
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