At last: GNOME adds native Exchange Server support (DesktopLinux.com) [LWN.net]

At last: GNOME adds native Exchange Server support (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Mar 20, 2009 11:04 UTC (Fri) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]

You can at least disable them now!

At last: GNOME adds native Exchange Server support (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Mar 20, 2009 13:59 UTC (Fri) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link]

I don't want to disable them. I've gotten attached to them. It's pretty much the way I read email. I go down my search folders one-by one (well, the ones that have new mail). Then finally I read the "Unmatched" folder.

With Evolution 2.24, the message count on the search folders was wrong 99% of the time. Some folders will show as having new mail when there is none there while others show no new mail when there is. And the Unmatched search folder was removed. Then you would get wacky things like "111/-3498 unread messages". Basically the search folders became useless, which is why I'm still using Evo 2.22 even though the rest of my GNOME desktop is 2.24.

At last: GNOME adds native Exchange Server support (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Mar 21, 2009 23:26 UTC (Sat) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Evolution counts unread messages with the "deleted" flag. Selecting "empty trash" from the menu fixes the counts. Lack of "unmatched" is indeed disappointing, and it's still impossible to have a search folder for all messages not in _any_ mailing list. Surely, Evolution needs more attention from us, grumpy users.

At last: GNOME adds native Exchange Server support (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Mar 27, 2009 20:48 UTC (Fri) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link]

I don't find this to be true. I "upgraded" to 2.26.0. Right now I have a vFolder. If I look in my Inbox there should be exactly 1 message that matches and it is unread. And indeed under search folders it says 1 unread, but 3 total. If I go into the vFolder then it doesn't list *any* messages, not even the 1 unread one.

I've emptied the trash and even closed/restarted Evolution but no go. Looks like I'll be downgrading back to 2.22.x :-(

As far as attention from users. This is another category I've been disppointed about. I've been submitting Evo bugs for years and usually I don't get any response. Then, 2 or 3 GNOME generations later I finally get a response either asking for more info, for which I don't have because I'm not using that version anymore, or that the issue should be fixed in a more recent version and that I should upgrade. The vFolder count bug has already been reported (I think I'm CCed on it) and I see it's gone through an entire GNOME release without being fixed.

At last: GNOME adds native Exchange Server support (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Mar 21, 2009 10:44 UTC (Sat) by dwmw2 (subscriber, #2063) [Link]

Ooh, can you disable the stupid vfolders now? I always used to make my own build of Evolution so that it didn't impose its own 'Junk' and 'Trash' folders on each mailstore, hiding any real folders with those names.

What would be really useful is if it would then stop being so appalling inefficient with its IMAP server, and go back to using STATUS to check for new mail in folders, rather than issuing SELECT and then re-fetching the flags for every mail each time.

But the bug reporting that regression has only been open for three years so far. They haven't got round to it yet.