evolution and thunderbird

[Rich Renomeron]

Brendon wrote:
> i have found that evolution is much quicker than thunderbird,  have used
> them both in breezy, and evo in dapper,  i find evo  much better.
> and alot more better at doing multi pop accounts.
Oddly enough, I have found the exact opposite (though I have not tried
dapper yet, other than the Live CD).  I mostly use IMAP accounts,
though, so YMMV.  I'm also using the MoFo 1.5.0.2 build rather than
what's in the Ubuntu package.

With every new GNOME release, I give Evo a shot, and I always go back. 
While its feature set is very compelling, there are just too many
annoying bugs for me that never seem to get fixed (and in some cases
even looked at), such as:

    * Abysmally poor spam filter performance.
    * An extra click and dialog box to see spelling suggestions
      (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228594).
    * The inability to control the composer's (display) font
      independently of GTK menu/widget fonts
      (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270025).
    * Severely crippled HTML rendering and composing
      (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269995,
      http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247564).

With the exception of the spam filter (I heard they switched to
bogofilter, which is a lot faster), none of these seem to be fixed in
Dapper.  I guess I'll try again with 2.8/Eft.

Rich

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