Shawn Walker wrote: > That has always flabbergasted me as well. > > Most users are going to be more familiar with Evolution (since it is > "like MS Outlook") than Thunderbird. > > Though I suppose that depends on whether you are talking about Linux > users or users from other platforms.
Speaking for myself only, I used Evolution for years on Solaris, and I dropped it in favor Thunderbird due to stability issues. Evolution was at the time simply too slow (I have a huge number of nested IMAP folders with a huge number of messages), and had too many important bugs related to both stability and usability that no-one was willing to fix. I haven't used it since (it has been a few years), so maybe that has changed since then. I just did a quick tour again just now, and it doesn't look like much has changed. It took over 45 seconds to load a single small ascii-only message buried in a large IMAP folder, and four minutes for the frozen Evolution main window to disappear after I did File->Quit. Thunderbird on the other hand is rock-solid, very fast for my workload, easy to use, and as Glenn mentioned already, more widely used. -Seb
