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EvolutionEvolutionPosted Nov 28, 2008 3:58 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)In reply to: Evolution by bojan Parent article: GNOME 2.24.2 released
I've used Evolution as my primary email client with both uw-imap and google's imap servers. Works great for me. I also have 60+ users using it for pop3. I'm surprised at all the negativity in this thread. We don't use Exchange. So I can't comment on that.
I enjoy its integration with the Gnome desktop and find that Evolution/Epiphany are a substantial win for memory consumption compared to Thunderbird/Firefox on my Gnome desktops.
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Evolution Posted Nov 28, 2008 6:50 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Ya. Exchange is 'teh sux'. Very difficult to work with if your not Microsoft.
Out of different email clients I've tried probably the only GUI ones that I personally would consider using is probably Evolution, Balsa, or Thunderbird. I've tried stuff like Claws and Sypheed, but they tend to make dealing with html-formatted email way to difficult or are otherwise to 'elite' for me to be comfortable to work with. (keep in mind that html-formatted email is a swear-to-god internet standard) Other people will probably like them, but it's just not my speed.
It should end up being better when Gnome gets webkit support into Evolution and friends and gets rid of the old gtkhtml stuff.
Evolution Posted Nov 28, 2008 8:40 UTC (Fri) by SiB (subscriber, #4048) [Link]
> (keep in mind that html-formatted email is a swear-to-god internet standard)
Yes, just like SPAM is. And it's being routed to the same folder :-)
HTML formatted mail Posted Nov 29, 2008 3:58 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (keep in mind that html-formatted email is a swear-to-god internet standard) I almost never see HTML-formatted mail. I suppose I get sent quite a bit of it, but luckily almost all mail clients that send HTML mail send it as multipart/alternative with a corresponding text/plain part. My mail server notices this, strips out the text/html, and everything is tickety-boo. Plus my mail archive is less than half the size it would be otherwise.
HTML formatted mail Posted Nov 29, 2008 7:59 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
The biggest reason I use html text is for emails from grandma. :)
Evolution Posted Nov 28, 2008 8:52 UTC (Fri) by Rehdon (guest, #45440) [Link]
I've also been using Evolution for years, both with POP3 and IMAP accounts, and while it's not perfect it surely does it job. I experienced random crashes with the 2.22 version, only minor glitches with the 2.24.1 one I'm using now.
Sure, it seems that development is crawling, I'd really like better IMAP support and Google-like conversations.
Rehdon
Evolution Posted Nov 28, 2008 21:50 UTC (Fri) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
I've also used Evolution for years, but it definitely has _not_ worked great. Crashes weren't too common, but anything more often than "never" is too often for me. Usually Evolution would have more subtle -- but equally data-destroying -- bugs, such as lock ups in the editor, drag-n-drop of messages causing a lockup (which in turn made the whole damn X session unusable, since the X grab was still in effect), and so on.
Switching to Thunderbird has made my life so much nicer.
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