Mail clients - which way forward?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 12:20 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 11:03 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 01:28 +1030, Tim wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:33 -0500, Mail Lists wrote:
> > > >   b) evolution - probably the only real alternative.
> > > >         cons: clunky UI - prone to crashing a lot.
> > > >         pros: supports in encryption, calendars, maildir++.
> > > 
> > > I can't say that I've noticed it crashing a lot.  Or even crashing at
> > > all, since about the Fedora 9 era.
> > 
> > I wish. Evo is my main MUA (and I only use it for mail). It does crash
> > and hang a lot less than it used to but I couldn't in all honesty say it
> > never happens. In fact the latest update just segfaulted twice in a
> > couple of hours (evolution-2.28.3-1.fc12.x86_64).
> 
> You must not use it with Exchange.  The exchange OWA connector crashes
> every time I restart evolution.  The MAPI connector is barely usable at
> this point--though it's improving slowly.  And nothing about Evo is
> compatible with Exchange 2007 yet.   And the whole thing does crash
> occasionally, just for kicks, it seems.

Fortunately I don't have that problem. I don't use Exchange, have never
used Exchange, and would in fact find it hard to think of anyone I know
personally who uses Exchange. I realize not everyone is so lucky.

poc