[TriLUG] Why evolution?

[Chris Knowles]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 17:17, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
> > Now if only Evolution
> > would be ported natively to Windows.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what about Evolution do you want that Mozilla
> doesn't have?  Mozilla mail (or possibly Thunderbird) is just
> as good an e-mail client (if not better).  It even has calendering
> and address book.  It does not have a to-do list that I know of,
> which is why I'm wondering if people actually use that.
> 
> I used evolution for several years until recently.  I switched from
> mozilla to Evolution at about evolution version 1.0.  I switched
> back to a mozilla mailer (thunderbird) in the last several months
> because:
> 
> a) evolution kept taking usability things away (keystrokes to go to
>     new message, next and previous, etc.. [yes, I know you can use >,
>     but why did they change it]).
> b) GPG signing verification horribly broken when using IMAP.
> c) Unwillingness to fix problems and even outright dismissal of bug
>     reports by the evo developers.
> d) Complete instability of later versions of evo to run on my system
>     (this one is probably specific to me).
> 
> Mozilla Thunderbird does almost everything I need for mail.  With the
> Enigmail plugin, it will even do GPG signing.  The one thing it won't
> do is let me setup multiple e-mail addresses for sending with no
> associated receiving component.  But, that's an open bug and being
> worked on.  In addition, it works on both my linux box and my iBook
> running OS X.  It also works under windows, so I would suggest
> looking into that if you need a good mailer.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
Here's my biggest peeve about the various mail clients...

The various forms that PGP/GPG signatures take.  Can enigmail read both
the kmail type and the evo type?  If so, I'm probably switching.

CJK
-- 
Chris Knowles <chrisk at trilug.org>
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