[TriLUG] thunderbird

David McDowell turnpike420 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 10 01:47:03 EDT 2005


Sunbird looks neat, cool icon yet again... man this mozilla team is
something else.  I'm curious to see how this project progresses.  I
bet I won't be syncing my Palm M105 to it though, but it'd be a nice
surprise! ;)

David McD


On Apr 9, 2005 3:25 PM, Aaron Bockover <abockover.trilug at aaronbock.net> wrote:
> Wow...
> 
> I've never had any issue with Evolution, since version
> 1.somethingoranother. It's fast, and I have 8 different POP/IMAP
> accounts in it, around 50 vfolders, and about 30 filters. My calendar is
> loaded, and I've taken the same ~/.evolution with me through 6 different
> distributions over the years. (Thankfully it changed from ~/evolution to
> ~/.evolution - that always got on my nerves, seeing it in Nautilus).
> 
> What distro are you using? Did it come preinstalled? What version of
> Evolution?
> 
> If you do go with Thunderbird, there is a Calendar plugin for Firefox
> and Thunderbird, or check out the Mozilla Sunbird project:
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
> 
> --Aaron
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 14:28 -0400, 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.
> >
> > So, what are you guys who are moving back to Thundertird going to do for Calendaring?
> >
> > JKB
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com>
> > Date: Friday, April 8, 2005 4:06 pm
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] thunderbird
> >
> > > > I have evolution once... was a nightmare move... hated it!!
> > > messages> moved easier than contacts, that's for sure.  I'm glad
> > > you don't have
> > > > to deal with evolution.
> > >
> > > That's why I switched.
> > >
> > > MPF
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