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

[Jesse Palser]

  On 07/09/2010 08:15 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> Tero Pesonen wrote:
>> Thunderbird has the issue that you cannot compose messages on it like on
>> a normal, well-behaving mail client. The line you're writing just keeps
>> going on and on and on and wraps only after it has rolled long past the
>> right hand corner of the screen. The result is that the composer window
>> will have a scroll bar which you need to scroll from left to right in
>> case you want to read what you wrote above -- the lines are that long.
>> There is no way to get rid of this and have the composer wrap at, say,
>> 68 or 72 characters. This behaviour goes against all HCI and
>> accessibility guidelines ever produced and renders the product useless.
>> The "feature" is well-known though the motivation behind introducing it
>> back in the original Mozilla Mail is not.
>>
>> Do not make Thunderbird default for anything till they fix message
>> composition.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tero Pesonen
>>
> I switched a year ago from Evolution, for many of the reasons give by
> others on this list, to Thunderbird 2.0 (from the Ubuntu repository)
> with lightning.
> If you want your mail editing be normal:
> A. Don't use html *although I assume you use plain text)
> Goto Edit->  preferences->  composition ->  General
> There you can set the # of characters before wrapping.
> Of course I don't know how thunderbird 3.0 works but in the Ubuntu
> repositories (for 9.10) you still get thunderbird 2.0 which, in my
> system works without a problem (already for over a year).
> Joep
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Hi,

You can easily add current Mozilla Thunderbird 3 to 10.04 Package Manager
by typing the following in Terminal:
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"sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa"
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Then you open Package Manager and click "Reload"
and then search for "Thunderbird".

It is great for email and with a plugin
I can view my Google calendar from my Android phone.

Give it a try!

Jesse