Evolution developers take years to fix serious bugs

[Robert Persson]

Binary package hint: evolution

I am reporting this as an ubuntu bug because evolution is the default email client of ubuntu and therefore, to the extent that it is poorly maintained, it will have a major impact on Ubuntu as a whole.

The evolution developers take years to deal with some important bugs and to introduce some pretty simple and uncontroversial enhancements.

For instance users have been lobbying for years for a delete-after-so-many-days feature. And even now we still don't have it, at least not in Dapper.

A more serious bug is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206061, which has been reported on launchpad as #13983. This was first reported in 2001, but has not yet been fixed. This particular bug is preventing me managing the trash on an imap account separately from the pop accounts I use for bulk mail (which is something I need to be able to do in order not to erase important messages by accident) , and therefore it may yet cause me to ditch evolution for thunderbird, in spite of thunderbird's thirst for CPU cycles. It actually causes various problems in various contexts and has therefore succeeded in annoying a lot of people, one way or another.

Perhaps this is a coincidence, but these are both bugs that inhibit interoperation with other MUAs.

Maybe you could give Novell a bit of gentle encouragement to take more notice of what users actually expect from an MUA.

Thanks :-)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. evolution is not an easy piece of software and has lot of issues, fixing them take time. There is not a lot we can do to push upstream out of working with them by pointing issues and working on patches to fix them. I'm closing the bug since we have no real use to keep it open, the evolution bugs list is already hard enough to manager with the number of items on it