Evolution Keeps crashing when replying to an email

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?

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!

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.

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).

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.