* Florin Andrei (2006-12-27 17:45 -0800) said: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Dimi Paun wrote: > >> Anyway, the Composer in Evo is in many ways better than in other mailers, >> especially when dealing with code. For example, you can select a bit of >> the message so it is the only part that's quoted, you can easily mark >> part of the message as Preformatted to prevent it from wrapping lines, etc. >> These are very handy for people dealing with code reviews and so forth. > > Hm, actually, the composer, to me, seemed like one of the worst Evo > components. I don't use HTML formatting too often, but on those rare > occasions when I do, Evo had pretty nasty formatting issues. > > Anyway, I've been using Evo since... I don't know, maybe version 0.1 > :-) > and recently, when upgrading to FC6, I just couldn't take it anymore > and switched to Thunderbird. > Now I can use the same mail client on any OS, but that's not the point. > > The point is, Thunderbird is orders of magnitude faster than Evo. I am > not exaggerating. I have a couple IMAP accounts on two Cyrus IMAPd > servers that I use concurrently, each one with perhaps around 100 > folders or so, with server-side filtering (Sieve rocks!), probably up > to 100k messages in each account, I would say several GB > total. Depending on where I am located physically, at most one account > or the other is "local", the other (or both) is via OpenVPN over > broadband. (*) > In these conditions, Evo takes ages to "boot up". I could literally > fire it up then go and make a cup of tea before it finishes reading > all those folders. And it's not the VPN that's slowing it down, even > the local account is very slow to open. > Thunderbird, OTOH, takes a couple seconds. > > The decision to switch was a no-brainer. > > The Evo team need to get their act together really quick. Their > software currently is a mess. 100% agreed. Evolution is useless for most users now. Not much has changed in the past few years. I used to keep it around but since I upgrade to Fedora 6, I have removed it completely. -- Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
