evolution and thunderbird

ruscook ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au
Wed May 17 09:58:40 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 22:04 -0400, Rich Renomeron 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.

Interesting, isn't it Firebird is fine for me, but Thunderbirds speed
differential is very noticeable.


> 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 ca

Fair enough. Most of these don't affect me. Although the HTML rendering
of Evo is an issue for me as well, but I do like responsiveness.


> ses
> 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.



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