Evolution mail unstable, please switch to Thunderbird for the next release...

[Dotan Cohen]

On 8 July 2010 17:07, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 00:47, Jon Cosby <jon.l.cosby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm sorry you're having problems, but I do very well with Evolution. Have
>> you tried posting some of these problems on this list to see if they can't
>> be solved that way?
>
> I have the same luck with Evolution... apparently it's still the same
> bloated, unstable crap that it was years ago when I gave up on it the
> last time :/
>
> IN my case:
>
> Random, inexplicable crashes.
> Random, inexplicable hangs.
> hangs when trying to add a contact from a directory to a new e-mail.
> hangs randomly when filtering messages.
> hangs randomly when pulling headers from my IMAP servers.
>
> None of these leave behind any clues in logs or elsewhere that I've
> been able to find.  The only reason I haven't dumped Evolution so far
> is that I'm too busy at the moment to take the time to install
> Thunderbird or some other mail client and configure it to match my
> current setup.
>

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