Evolution Keeps crashing when replying to an email

[bdaedalus359]

Hi

It's been a strugle but, I finely set up my work computer as a openSuse workstation. Networking has been, hands down, the hardest part of this trek..

Currently, the biggest problem I've been having is, Evolution keeps crashing when I use it for email. My work uses Microsoft Exchange so, I downloaded the plug in and got everything set up. I recive mail just fine, I can read it and everything. However, when I reply to them, Evolution freezes up and turns gray. I tried running it from the terminal but, the terminal didn't report anything when it crashes; I have no idea what could be causing it.

I don't think its an app conflict because it generally happens when I reply to a message.

Help?

[Larry Bristol]

bdaedalus359 wrote:

> Hi
>
> It's been a strugle but, I finely set up my work computer as a openSuse
> workstation. Networking has been, hands down, the hardest part of this
> trek..
>
> Currently, the biggest problem I've been having is, Evolution keeps
> crashing when I use it for email. My work uses Microsoft Exchange so, I
> downloaded the plug in and got everything set up. I recive mail just
> fine, I can read it and everything. However, when I reply to them,
> Evolution freezes up and turns gray. I tried running it from the
> terminal but, the terminal didn't report anything when it crashes; I
> have no idea what could be causing it.
>
> I don't think its an app conflict because it generally happens when I
> reply to a message.
>
> Help?

I hope someone has a fix for this. I have the same problem!

[Imaginos]

What plugin are you using? I was using a Mapi-provider ( MAPIProvider - Evolution ) for evolution to connect to Exchange2007, but the repos have recently been wiped.

[Larry Bristol]

Imaginos wrote:
> What plugin are you using? I was using a Mapi-provider ( 'MAPIProvider
> - Evolution' (http://www.go-evolution.org/MAPIProvider) ) for evolution
> to connect to Exchange2007, but the repos have recently been wiped.

I'm sorry, but I do not understand your question. I installed the following
packages: evolution, evolution-data-server, evolution-exchange,
evolution-exchange-lang, and all of their dependencies. The only packages
I can find searching for "evolution plugin" are beagle-evolution (probably
not too useful since I do not even have beagle installed) and
multisync-evolution (experimental state, does not seem applicable to my
problem).

[Imaginos]

Hi Larry,

Sorry to confuse. I was using Evolution to connect to an Exchange 2007 SP1 server. I was unable to setup/connect with the evolution-exchange package which uses Outlook Web Access (OWA) to interact with Exchange due to the changes in 2007's OWA.
Instead, I had to turn to mapi-provider, which helps Evolution connect as if it were a native Outlook client.

One of the problems I am having is similar - when I send email, I get a hung client too. May or may not be related. I get same hang when I change folder views too. I was blaming it on the mapi though.

[Larry Bristol]

Imaginos wrote:

> Sorry to confuse. I was using Evolution to connect to an Exchange 2007
> SP1 server. I was unable to setup/connect with the evolution-exchange
> package which uses Outlook Web Access (OWA) to interact with Exchange
> due to the changes in 2007's OWA.
> Instead, I had to turn to mapi-provider, which helps Evolution connect
> as if it were a native Outlook client.
>
> One of the problems I am having is similar - when I send email, I get a
> hung client too. May or may not be related. I get same hang when I
> change folder views too. I was blaming it on the mapi though.

Yes, that sounds like the same problem I am seeing. I am seeing this
problem using OWA.

I think the OP suggested the hang occurs when replying to an email. I get a
hang when trying to send, whether it is a reply, new message, forwarding a
message, etc..

[AussieGuy]

I'd be interested in an answer to this, as my work (**** them!) have settled on MS Exchange as our email server, which pretty much limits me to evolution, or MS Webmail. Evolution crashes and is basically unusable, MS Webmail (under firefox) is a very cut-down and bare-bones system - no search facility, for example.

Thanks,
-A.

[Imaginos]

Anybody up to the task of compiling/building MAPI Provider from the sources? MAPIProvider - Evolution & OpenChange - Evolution Plugin

With this plugin, you can connect to the server as if you were an Outlook client. No more OWA or the Evolution OWA Exchange connect.

[eberkers]

Same here, with evo 2.22. Reply on email shoots CPU to permanent 100% and eats memory at around 100MB per hour. Glad to see more people are in the same boat.