-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Mielke wrote: > Hi all, > > far from wanting another "religious war"... is it me or is Evolution more > feature-rich than Thunderbird? > > I even found references like this one: > http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/23/1648242 > > One of the things I found good on Evolution is the ability to send an email > to the attendees for a meeting when a new calendar entry is created... this > fails on Thunderbird+Lightning (version 0.3.1), although I heard that > Lightning 0.5 is about to hit the streets and will provide such feature as > well... > > All in all, this is my second day using Evolution. I'm more KDE-oriented and > also a Thunderbird/Firefox user for years now but I have to admit that > Evolution looks quite decent... > > As usual, suggestions on this subject are more than welcomed! > > > TIA, > Martin > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Be > a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469
Evolution was great when it worked for me in V1.0. Then I hit a number of issues with v2.0. Among which where... i) For some reason it started crashing when opening the default mail view. After a couple of month of having loading offline in the calendar view switching to the mail view the going offline I gave up on it. (BTW this is no longer an issue). ii) Never worked too well with courier-imap and still does not (see iii below). iii) Had a very bad habit of getting confused about about IMAP folders in the filtering rules. Tended to be a bit intolerant of changes made after access from other locations, subscribing to folder seems to a bit quirky. Couple of features I rather liked in v1.0 disapeared in v2.0. As I use both Windows and Linux I really need something that I could use on both platforms and synchronise things like mail filtering rules across platforms. Evolution is really Linux only, and you can do this with Thunderbird. I have recently discovered there are plugins for syncML support available for both Evolution and Mozilla that are supposed to work with funambol (formerly sync4J), which is an interesting development. I intend to explore this as I have been frustrated about how difficult it is to synchronise contact and PIM data between Symbian devices and Linux for some time. However installing funambol is not going to be a trivial exercise. This technology involves holding your mail, PIM and maybe other bits and pieces on a central repository and you synchronise that data between your various devices on demand. This could be solution for those with windows mobile, RIM (Blackberry) or palm pilot devices. There may be a connectivity issue with Thunderbird in that I have noticed connections being locked in a CLOSE_WAIT state, and TB times out as consequence. It seems to be associated with very large folders. However, I am not certain whether this is courier-imap issue, a Thunderbird issue or something else (the connection info does seem to slightly corrupt when the problem occurs), and it does seem to fire off when I am working on other network services, Unfortunately everytime I have attempted monitored the connection to get a clue about what is going on everything starts behaving itself (as it does :-(). This has only occurred since upgrading to 10.2. STOP PRESS :- The server just locked up with fam reporting several hundred too many files open messages. I not to sure this is another clue to the problem or what *sigh* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVy3AasN0sSnLmgIRAsZrAJ0TGkNB9XIYwYuyXc9uYEekVkjbzQCdHS27 o4rvqMy86+x7xihNfKKGM8A= =WJqJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
