On 2022-02-13 8:03 p.m., Tim via users wrote:
Tim:
Thus far, Evolution is the least-worst one I've found on Linux.
I used fetchmail for a lot of years. Then one of my upstream email
servers switched to a modified and mostly-undocumented Yahoo connection
mechanism, and I could not find the correct connection strings and ports
to make it work, and was forced into either switching email clients or
using a web browser as a substandard email client. Various web notes
for connecting are now improved enough that I think I could move back to
fetchmail if circumstances required it.
I moved from fetchmail to Evolution, and initially thought it was
brilliant. The only initial issues that I faced were in trying to
configure undocumented connectivity to Rogers (altered Yahoo) and Google
upstream mail services. Eventually, somebody published the correct
incantations, like using SSMTP ports but not the protocol, and all was
good for quite some time. However, the Evolution ivory tower released a
couple of bad versions that corrupted their internal db and I lost a lot
of mail as a result. IMHO, I have no idea why someone thought a db was
a good idea in an email client, but maybe they came from a Microsoft
background and email using the Jet db. Anyway, I was never able to
correct the problem, as there are no recovery tools, the devs are
uncommunicative, and I experienced very poor support from their user
group. While I've done it very long ago, I have better things to
develop than debugging what is supposed to be a well-designed client.
Maybe I only work on well-designed code, since I think that the coding
complexity of Evolution is a bunch of accidents waiting to happen.
After about 2 years of fighting with an overly-complex mail client with
internal corruption, I just gave up and switched to Thunderbird. My
first happy surprise was when both current upstream providers were
recognized and correctly configured. Then I got very busy after hours,
as I could see about 10k of unread emails that Thunderbird had not
fetched, presumably due to their broken db issues. After a week of
reading and getting back to people that I should have, I got my fingers
well programmed for Thunderbird. Luckily, if you use Firefox, then
there is a lot of commonality in the UI. I've now been using
Thunderbird for about 3 years on a dozen machines, and am still happy
with it. Its now my go-to email client across multiple platforms, even
(gasp!) Windows. Its heavyweight, but very capable.
--
John Mellor
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