evolution and thunderbird

OOzy Pal oozypal at gmail.com
Wed May 17 04:44:56 UTC 2006


On 5/17/06, Richard <cms01 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> Stay with Firebird and Thunderbird, version 3, will be using sqlite
> embedded database.
> Rich
>
>
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No one seem to speak about Kontact. Am I the only one using Kontact!!!
Please share with me your experience.

Before, I was using Outlook, then Thunderbird (W32), then back to
Outlook, Then switched to Linux and now I am using Kontact? What do
you guys think?

Thank you.

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OOzy




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