Evolution mail client issues

The problem with the dates seems to be reported already, and will
hopefully be fixed soon.

Hi,

it is fixed in the sources for 3.49.2 and later versions for roughly
a month now.

The issue with the “To:” recipients field seems to be only an issue
when compiled with option -O3.

Right, that’s something to be investigated and should be reported.
Ideally with the above mentioned fix applied, in case it’s just a
fallout of it.

And the high CPU load for hours when processing the Inbox after first
install may be hard to debug.

Not that much, once can build with debug symbols (for the evolution-
data-server, evolution and glib2 at least) and then grab a backtrace of
the running process to see what it is trying to do. You can get the
backtrace with a command like this:

$ gdb --batch --ex “t a a bt” --pid=pidof evolution &>bt.txt

Please check the bt.txt for any private information, like passwords,
email addresses, server addresses,… I usually search for “pass” at
least (quotes for clarity only), before sharing it anywhere.

Maybe 90000 mails in Inbox is just too much

Nope, 90k mails is nothing. I’ve an IMAP folder with 238K messages and
the most time it takes to load is when downloading summary information
from the server after entering the account for the first time. I
believe there are users with many more messages in a single folder.

I think this failed due to those optimizations, which trigger some
problem. Whether related to the Date header or not I do not know, but
it might be a good bet, I guess.
Bye,
Milan

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