On Monday 09 June 2008 11:08:46 am linuxguy wrote:
> I've been using Evolution as my email client since RH8. I hate it
> because it seems to get confused if one opens up an email or changes
> [snip!]
> Is anyone using Thunderbird like this ? How does it compare ? How hard
> is it to move over to it ?
> Thanks
1) I have had the same sort of problems (and more) with Evolution
and I got tired of it. The hard part is getting it all configured
correctly. But even then, it is a resource hog as you mentioned,
but what pissed me off mostly was bugs, crashes, and manually
killing the processes when things go wrong with evo.
2) I have tried Kmail and again, it has it's own set of problems,
one involving threads, and it is SLOW depending on your MB.
I am using an Intel dual-proc Core-Duo w/2GB ram and it is slow
only because it needs to sync and process each email messages
if you enable thread support. It seems faster without threading
enabled. By threading, I mean email threading. I LOVE the versatility
of configuring the Fonts for each gui panes. Very nice. This is my
current email client. As with Thunderbird, when you click on a folder,
it is at this point where synchronization to the server gets updated and
you have to wait until it is finished - the CPU hits hard, slowing things
down, so you are somewhat forced to wait before beginning the next
step. I wish that this process is done automatically, is niced, and
happens transparently, but it is what it is.
3) I have successfully configured and tried Thunderbird and I do like it
but it is not as versatile/configurable as Kmail, imo. I ran into trouble
initially with configuring since it was 'different' than what I was used
to and had to get used to the idea of 'expunge' and emtpying the 'trash',
a two-step process. With Kmail, I just have to empty the trash but then
I set the configuration to empty the trash on exit. Pretty minor.
In all three cases above, my biggest problem was connecting to M$ exchange
as my main email server - I had to configure exchange to ALLOW connections
but once I got through this correctly, it all worked well.
FWIW,
Dan
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