Thunderbird

[James McDonald]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> I gave up on evolution about 2.5 years ago, after trying to use it for
> an hour.  It had to be one of the most bloated, buggy, unstable pieces
> of software i've ever used (and that's including alot of crap in
> Windows).  More than half the time, it would hang just starting up.
> When it didn't hang on startup, it would hang when checking for new
> mail.  Granted alot of development has happened over the past 2.5
> years, but from your sporadic accounts of problems on this list, it
> doesn't sound like much has improved.  I've been happily using
> Thunderbird for years.
>
>   
I have used Evo against a 2003 Exchange Server and while it does 
duplicate a lot of the outlook functionality I aswell feel it's buggy 
and slow. The evolution-exchange backend process dies frequently and you 
then have to use command line to kill it off to get it to work again.

I have noticed improvement each time I use it but given it's buggyness I 
can't imagine it would be a viable PIM in a corporate setting.

However like all things OSS one generation to the next can mean huge 
improvements.