Evolution vs. Thunderbird

[Jay Daniels]

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 21:20 -0400, David McNally wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> After being without Internet access for a week, I've decided I don't
> want to use webmail any longer. However, I don't want to change my
> email address, so I want to keep my Gmail, but use Evolution or
> Thunderbird to have it on my computer. During this internet-free week,
> I found myself constantly needing to go back and find old emails from
> the past few weeks that I would have had if I had set up Evolution or
> Thunderbird.
> 
> So, which one do you folks think is better, and why?
> 
> Just in case this helps, I need it to support Gmail easily. I have a
> 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04 machine. I don't have Thunderbird installed, but it
> would be no problem to install it. I need something that's _easy_ for
> me to use. I'm still a bit of a noob, but I'm a serious noob in this
> area. I've never really used programs like Outlook or Evolution or
> Thunderbird, so it has to be simple to navigate and to get it to do
> what I want it to do, even if I need to sacrifice features for that.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> David
> 


If you ever plan on converting to Maildir format for mail, you may want
to know that Evolution supports reading maildir folders directly.
Thunderbird does not support reading these mail folders directly.




jay