Evolution vs. Thunderbird

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 06:25 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 21:57 -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> > David McNally wrote:
> > > So, which one do you folks think is better, and why?
> > 
> > I use Evo, but only because I have had to deal with Exchange email and
> > Exchange calendaring in my consulting and I refuse to use Outlook.  I do
> > like Evo's virtual folders.  They do make it easy to organize and sort
> > email.
> > 
> > I run the latest snapshot, since there was a fair bit of breakage with
> > the standard Ubuntu release.  There is a nifty Makefile which you can
> > get which makes the builds pretty simple.
> > 
> > http://www.go-evolution.org/Compiling_Evolution_from_SVN
> > 
> > If you do not need the added Evo functionality, Thunderbird is a fine
> > and quite stable email client.
> 
> 
> 
> Are you able to compile the latest cvs version of evo on Hardy?  Have
> you tried checkinstall to create debs?

I am running Jaunty, so I do not know about Hardy.  The Evo repository
is SVN and not CVS.  I do not create debs, but create a separate
executable tree because of the heavy library dependencies.  I check for
updates nightly and run the make out of a cron script.
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