Evolution

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 10:40 +1000, James McDonald wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
> > Any thought, pro or con, on using Evolution as mail/scheduler/calendar/etc?
> >
> > Just curious if it's worth learning.
> >
> >   
> I try and use it for about a day whenever I do a fresh Fedora install. 
> It's got all the outlook bells and whistles but as others have stated it 
> loses connection to them and then hangs.
> 
> It seems to be getting gradually better. I have used it connected to my 
> Exchange 2003 at work ... and it sometimes would need the 
> evolution-exchange backend process restarting.
> 
> I am currently using it to connect to dovecot IMAP and it seems mostly 
> stable...

For IMAP access, Evolution wins hands down (compared to Kmail and
Thunderbird). Its use of threads to keep the interface snappy when doing
IMAP stuff is great. There is no waiting for some IMAP check or update
to complete to keep you from reading messages. Kmail and Thunderbird
seem (all releases up to and including the current of these) clunky in
this respect. Lots of hour glasses waiting for the check of an IMAP
folder. As I have dozens of folders, many with sub-folders, this can get
real old real fast.

As to calendars. I do not know. I suspect that over then next few months
I will have to get friendly with our OutLook system here. I keep putting
it off. So, please report whatever you find!

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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