I noticed that others beside myself were having trouble as above when
attempting to initiate a message in Evolution. I have remedied the
problem on my Mandrake 8.0 setup so I'm posting this in case it may
help others.
I used the shotgun approach(due to lack of true understanding) and
installed various related rpms from Cooker, each time testing to see if
the problem had gone away. My final installs were of the latest Cooker
versions of gmome-print, libgnomeprint15, libgnomeprint15-devel,
libbonobo2, libbonobo2-devel, libbonobo-conf0, and
libbonobo-conf0-devel. These were done together to satisfy dependencies.
I got lucky: the mail component of Evolution no longer crashes when
creating a new message or when forwarding. Now I make use of the
application.
Hope this helps someone else.
Dick