[TriLUG] Help with a Linuxworld Article

[Michael Thompson]

I'm running Evolution 1.4.3 and it gives me fits all the time on RH 9. 
What version/distro are you using?  Maybe I'll have better luck with a
different setup.  I do like Evolution, but it seems a little buggy to
me...

Thanks, 

--mike

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 21:10, Jon Carnes wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 19:08, Mark R. Hinkle wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > For our February issue of Linuxworld magazine I am trying to gather four or
> > five linux desktop user essays for the issue on Free/Libre Open Source
> > Software(FLOSS)for the desktop. If anyone is interested please contact me at
> > mrhinkle at linuxworld.com. What I am looking for is some open source desktop
> > applications that you find to be very valuable to you personally and two or
> > three paragraphs on what you feel to be your favorite applications I have
> > one essay on Konqueror and I am looking for something other than mozilla and
> > openoffice. You will get credited with your full name and organization if
> > you like. For those that don't want to use a organization I will use
> > Triangle Linux Users Group as the organization. If you want to see any of my
> > last articles they are listed at http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=2082
> > though not all are open to non-subscribers.  Thanks in advance for any
> > interest.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Mark R. Hinkle
> > Editor, Desktop Linux Technologies
> > LinuxWorld Magazine
> > http://www.linuxworld.com/magazine/
> 
> My favorite Desktop application is without a doubt, Evolution, by the
> folks at Ximian (now a part of Novell).  Evolution is one of those
> killer apps that integrates a lot of basic applications:
>  - email client,
>  - contact manager,
>  - news gatherer, and
>  - scheduler.
> It was written with the idea of replacing Outlook.  In fact, with the
> addition of a (non-free) connection utility, it will connect to an
> Exchange server as if it were an Outlook client.
> 
> Evolution is Open Source software (it's free) and it runs in many
> different environments including Linux and Windows, and it runs superbly
> (at least for me). I download all my mail from various servers around
> the world using wildly varying protocols - including some fairly obscure
> secure ones - and it handles the mail perfectly, sorting it into folders
> based on the rules and filters that I've setup within it.
> 
> I can easily add contacts from an incoming email with the click of my
> mouse. Another click and I'm looking at the summary page with a view of
> my mail stats plus any news headlines that I've told it to gather, plus
> an overview of all my appointments for that day. Another click and I'm
> looking at my complete schedule or my To-do list.
> 
> My favorite feature of evolution is that it is immune to all those
> viruses that prey on Microsoft clients. I never fear to open a note that
> says "I love you."  I also have Evolution set to NOT load remote images
> from the internet; no spammer will ever know that I ever looked at their
> message... but if I *want* to see the image I simply have to click once
> and it's there.
> 
> Now for the downside.  Every now and then (less than once a month)
> Evolution locks up on me and I have to run "killev", an application that
> gracefully knocks Evolution out of your computers RAM and resets the
> files. I don't mind it too much, that's a lot better than Outlook used
> to do for me, and with Evolution I never have any corrupt mailboxes, and
> if I'm in the middle of writing an email it *always* recovers the new
> message as soon as I start Evolution back up and tell it to open a new
> message. That's a great recovery.
> 
> So there you have it, a testimony on my favorite Desktop application:
> Evolution.
> 
> Jon Carnes
> Network Guru for FeatureTel
-- 
Michael Thompson <thompson at easternrad.com>
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