[ale] stoopid evolution spam filter

[Christopher Fowler]

I love Evolution.  It allows me to easily communicate with everyone
including those that run Windoze.  I use Mutt sometimes when all I have
is a tty and it is difficult to read HTML mail.  I'd like to figure out
a way to use links or something to vie the mail because it wants to fire
up mozilla which requires a GUI.  

I have problems when pasting XML and stuff like that into the email.  It
can cause the whole process to lock up.  Even now after running
evolution on my system for many months I can no longer close it.  When I
do close it my CPU goes to 100% and it seems to just sit there.  So to
kill evolution I now type 'killall -9 evolution'

It is a nice program but has gotten too fat IMO.
Personally all I need are the following:

1. Multiple IMAP account support
2. Read HTML mail support

I personally do my filtering on my mail server so luckily I don't have
to worry about that.



On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 10:51 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Has intelligence left the Linux world? (I hope not!!)
> 
> Evolution email client has the spam filtering built in now. And it works
> pretty well. 
> 
> BUT!!
> 
> It uses spammassassin's spamd server for processing. And it seems to
> like to open a new spamd child for each time it looks at a message.
> 
> The problem is it never closes the child.
> 
> E V E R
> 
> In fact, when it "fills up" it will open a new spamd parent process and
> _it_ starts filling up the children. This is where inserting the "F"
> work actually makes sense to describe the parent-child situation I am
> seeing.
> 
> Add to this that evolution (as shipped with the geniuses at Fedora) has
> other issues like crashing when you hit the reply button about every 3rd
> or 4th time. So each crash will leave a spamd (and all 25 children)
> running.
> 
> So on a dual Opteron machine w/2G ram after about a days worth of
> "normal" email traffic, it feels like I'm running on a PII 200MHz w/64M
> RAM.
> 
> Ximian was clearly working too hard to have that "look and feel" of
> Outlook when the put out this version of Evolution.
> 
> Did I mention that FC4 went totally mental and used CVS versions of
> pilot-link that were clearly labeled DO NOT USE and now the sync process
> is totally broken.
> 
> Back tracking and recompiling leads to insanity in the perverted world
> of rpm dependancy hell.
> 
> </rant>
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