[TriLUG] thunderbird

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 09 April 2005 02:28 pm, jbrigman at nc.rr.com wrote:
> What the HECK is WRONG with Evolution? It's tantalizing in it's
> capabilties, but I found a number of serious problems:
>
> - It is bad slow, whether blacklist spamblock is enabled or not
> - Can't use the "send as new message" function to re-send an email you've
> just received, - Can't select/cut/paste from a received email into a new
> composing email, - When you do cut/paste something, you've got to do it
> slowly and not switch the windows too fast, or the paste buffer will just
> belch everything out and have nothing in it.
>
> I don't get it: Evolution's been around much longer than Thunderbird - I
> would've thought it would be rock solid by now. I'm running, not walking,
> back to Thunderbird.

Not only slow, but complicated. Kmail's about all I can understand.

>
> So, what are you guys who are moving back to Thundertird going to do for
> Calendaring?

VimOutliner has a calendering plugin. http://www.vimoutliner.org.

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Founder and acting president: GoLUG
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