Thunderbird

[Ken Moffat]

Vu Pham wrote:
> I have been using Evolution with imap server for about two years. 
> Recently when the mailbox grows ( not sure if it is the culprit or not 
> ) sometimes, about once or twice a day, Evolution shows me the error 
> "cannot ping the mail server" and  then I either have to close the box 
> and manually click send/receive to make it work again, or I have to 
> use pkill to close it.
>
> Two days ago I started using Thunderbird as an alternative, and so far 
> I am so happy with it. I have not seen any email connection problem.
>
> Not sure if anybody experiences that same ping problem with Evolution 
> or just me.  Maybe my Evolution settings is not correct.
>
> Vu

I use T-bird (actually the debian Icedove version) most of the time, 
since it always works with my imap servers, and is identical in windows. 
But I have used Evo on imap and find it very fast, much faster than 
t-bird. The problem I have is with evo disappearing, just vanishing, but 
only on one machine. I usually run debian.