Well yes, people expect it to be there because it's hard to switch email clients. It's certainly not a trivial undertaking, and it would be a major problem in any conceivable corporate environment. I'd go as far as to say it's simply a showstopper for desktop OS. Now thing is that Evo in FC6 is orders of magnitude worse than in FC5! I mean, the bugs that were listed in the discussion you pointed at seem trivial in comparison. Right now it's not a matter that it's slow, or can't be used over slow links. No. Now it simply hangs while sending (or sometimes receiving mail), and the only viable option for a regular user is to restart X or reboot! What good is an email client that can't send mail?!?
I don't know that I agree with that necessarily. For what I use EVO for on a day to day basis (connecting to an Exchange 2003 server which can't be done using any other OSS client) Evo have improved considerably in FC6. It at least doesn't crash a couple of times a day when looking up email contacts. It definately isn't at the level I would like stability wise and I wish the developers were a bit more open and spent more time fixing bugs rather than adding things like cairo eye candy but at least I'm not at the stage where I was in FC5 where I'm downloading the developement src rpms and compiling them agaist FC5 to get something close to stable. I really wish they would start to merge some of the dbus port that has been done that seems to include a lot of nice memory improvements and stability improvements etc. I also thought that redhat was looking to hire a full time evo hacker to help get on top of some of it (they may well have). In general I like the feature set of evo I just wish that some of the long standing issues could be cleared up. The merge of the dbus branch would be a good start at least then there would be more developers working on the core branch rather than a fork of the project. Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
