Mozilla Thunderbird

[Kipton Moravec]

I am looking at this from a Windows user who is trying to understand
Linux.

I decided that I would switch all of my email to a Linux based platform,
because I wanted to reduce the possibility of viruses and to help cut
down the number of SPAM email I need to look at.

I get about 200 good emails per day and between 1000 and 1600 (depending
on the day) SPAM email per day.

The thing I like about evolution is that it has Spam Filtering built-in.
It knocks out a lot of the SPAM, but it misses a lot too. I have to look
at about 100 missed spam messages per day. However in my case that is a
lot better than 1600 -- everything helps. 

I also like the ability to make rules based on the messages, that way I
can sort them into folders automatically, and when I am in a hurry I
check the unread folders. 

Evolution seems to be able to handle my volumes of mail, and the fact
that I don't delete email, because I often have to go back to recall
stuff, 2-6 months back that was sent to me.

I have cable-modem and my computer is checking my POP3 server every 10
minutes. I have a Athelon 2400+ with 512 MB and I don't notice anything
when it is reading, and sorting mail.  So I don't see the software as
loading down my computer.  I have about 50 filter rules so far.

The thing I do not like about evolution is that you can not make a
"white list" rule, that says if sender is in my address book perform
some operation.

I also do not see a function that allows me to delete duplicate emails
in a folder. 

Also there is not much documentation on how SpamAssassin works in
Evolution. All it says in the documentation is that you need to click an
item to start it. The documentation does not say it needs 200 emails
before it starts working, or anything like that. Documentation is my
biggest complaint. 

As a Newbie to Ubuntu and to Evolution, I am pretty happy with it.

As I was writing this email on a Sunday morning, I received 150 SPAM
emails and 148 were correctly marked as Junk and 2 were not that should
have been. That is not too bad.


Kip
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Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com>