Move Evolution to Extras?

[Leo]

* 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.

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)