From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 17:23:19 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21357941 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x229.google.com (mail-ob0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E130412C6 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f169.google.com with SMTP id uz6so3666306obc.0 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:23:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=jA3rtQxkPYSvZUHggcCEjZTk4suQHTtCij7TPl+IGrE=; b=zlcaTA0ngX9J8a2/725X/P1fgKPKxGmY66ow4BFpsJG28NaP9YkQB4Uf5WHMUF8EEs 664FIMxWA98Mx7HCOAty8AUq5guf4xZpPRBtOgQBmahz111Rjn20MfZtoqYyRYpiDtzw /rQcpxURruk2k6bt2k6Fb6cGeaiDVZTYEheYeHu0AC8MgVDbOcbDzzon9Cuo2wavr4m1 WJx5jiDefEuZ0vHWEhq8dT2aaKc7nUNJf28Y4KF+F/AVaQrC722LUXp3smN/ORzCFBKS XuA7fhKg/bq1CY3goAvsAeATfYXOLaWO9q0ra7OlVMsPYuBlfRKr0crKtoMRD89JVhgb YPww== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.38.199 with SMTP id i7mr2644164obk.68.1398187398210; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.131.226 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:23:18 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Evolution Issues From: Frank Jahnke To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:23:19 -0000 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? 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. 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!