On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 22:03 -0500, John Mellor wrote: > 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.
I'm sorry you had that experience, but I have to assume that this happened quite some time ago. The current maintainer is in fact extremely communicative and anxious to resolve problems. I agree that the code base of Evolution is large, at least in part because it's not just a mail client, and that even as an MUA it has to deal with Exchange (it's the go-to MUA for Exchange users on Linux). Personally, I only ever use IMAP and don't particularly care about the non-mail aspects, so it works for me. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
