Evolution vs. Thunderbird

Andrew Farris flyindragon1 at aol.com
Wed Sep 2 04:25:16 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 21:02 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> David McNally wrote:
> > So, which one do you folks think is better, and why?
> 
>     TBird because every time I tried to set up Evolution to work with
> my IMAP
> server it would fail, hard.  Also Evolution has the holier-than-thou
> attitude
> seeping through it.  

I've never experienced this...but maybe I'm just too used to it to
notice.

> Just try to set the word wrap on your emails to anything
> other than 72, I dare ya!  Also it is modeled after the Lookout! model
> of
> "email".  As in an email client is somehow supposed to be a PIM,
> Calendar and
> Todo list as well.  Trying to do too much = failing to do any well.
> TBird is
> email, just email, nothing but email.

Personally I like the integrated functions, though admittedly I don't
use the memos or tasks functions.

> -- 
>          Steve C. Lamb         | But who decides what they dream?
>        PGP Key: 8B6E99C5       |   And dream I do...
> -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------

Nice w/ the Evanescence Quote in the sig :)

-- 
Andrew
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