[Bug 64401] Evolution developers take years to fix serious bugs

[Robert Persson]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: evolution

I am reporting this as an ubuntu bug because evolution is the default
email client of ubuntu and therefore, to the extent that it is poorly
maintained, it will have a major impact on Ubuntu as a whole.

The evolution developers take years to deal with some important bugs and
to introduce some pretty simple and uncontroversial enhancements.

For instance users have been lobbying for years for a  delete-after-so-
many-days feature. And even now we still don't have it, at least not in
Dapper.

A more serious bug is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206061,
which has been reported on launchpad as #13983. This was first reported
in 2001, but has not yet been fixed. This particular bug is preventing
me managing the trash on an imap account separately from the pop
accounts I use for bulk mail (which is something I need to be able to do
in order not to erase important messages by accident) , and therefore it
may yet cause me to ditch evolution for thunderbird, in spite of
thunderbird's thirst for CPU cycles. It actually causes various problems
in various contexts and has therefore succeeded in annoying a lot of
people, one way or another.

Perhaps this is a coincidence, but these are both bugs that inhibit
interoperation with other MUAs.

Maybe you could give Novell a bit of gentle encouragement to take more
notice of what users actually expect from an MUA.

Thanks :-)

** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Evolution developers take years to fix serious bugs
https://launchpad.net/bugs/64401