[TriLUG] thunderbird

David Rasch rasch at raschnet.com
Sun Apr 10 08:42:11 EDT 2005


Last I checked syncing support wasn't on the roadmap until 2.0, but 
there was lots of people who took issue with that so hopefully they've 
changed their minds.

-David

David McDowell wrote:

>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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