move to Evolution

[Sebastian Spiess]

Hi all,

I recently decided to move from Thunderbird to Evolution. 
The two main reasons where better integration into GNOME (I run
Intrepid) and address book supporting birthdays. 

While I was searching on how to do the move as painless as possible I
found many who wanted to move from Evolution to Thunderbird but only a
few in my direction.

I remember that, two releases ago - Gutsy, Evolution kept crashing on me
although I only used it for Contact/Birthday management. Backing up and
restoring was a pain as well, especially as it was widely recommended
with a always crashing Evolution.

Well now I did the move and I have to say it was not painful, what
helped me was mainly this one
http://gaveen.owain.org/2007/07/howto-migrate-from-thunderbird-to.html

Moving mails was successful, contacts as well. Mail filters, well I
re-did them or made new ones up, PGP and other certificates where easily
installed.

I admit I still have some housekeeping to do, sorting though mails and
reorganise, setting up filters and labels.

Now first I hope someone will read this and give it a try as well!
Second I was hoping for some input/answers :-)

	Is there a way to change default window sizes, particular the filter
window and the filter detail window are always very small. I can hardly
read the first halve of the filter names...
	When using the To: button on writing a new mail my contacts have a
Mr/Mrs... in front of their name. Can I change that without changing the
contacts themselves?
	Are filters automatically applied to new incoming mail?

	Is there a way to add more buttons to the menu bar?


Cheers,

Sebastian
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