Customisation

Posted May 23, 2005 3:13 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Customisation by whitemice
Parent article: Outlook vs Evolution vs Kontact: an e-mail client comparison (opensourceversus)

I have my wife set up to use Evolution; it is a decent mailer, definitely usable by non-geeks. But it is not in any way Unix-like, despite the use of components.

To me, Unix-like would mean that it's easy to pipe a message to a process (using a command line), or insert something like procmail rules in its processing chain, or use regular expressions. And while threading isn't inherently Unixy, it's the best way to get through high-volume discussions, so the lack of threading really hurts. The result is that I use mutt for real work; Evolution and similar mailers don't cut it, though they could if their designers would try to incorporate the best from both the Unix and the Windows worlds instead of just slavishly cloning Outlook.

Also, my main reminder that Evolution uses multiple processes is that it occasionally informs the user that one of them has crashed.