The (d)evolution of Evolution
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Dec 7 01:19:19 UTC 2004
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 00:51, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> Synopsis:
> Evolution hangs for 5 minutes or more when connecting to an IMAP
> server, thus rendering email reading impossible. This happens with all
> IMAP servers. The hanging "feature" does not exist under Thunderbird.
> Does anyone know what causes this and, more importantly, how to fix it?
I do not have that problem, but then my imap server is on my LAN.
>
> Rant:
> I have been using Evolution for my email for quite a while now.
> It always seemed to me that every version increase would lose some
> feature or function that was great. Over all it keeps getting worse and
> worse as the versions go up. Now FC3 ships with Evolution 2. The UI
> changes are really bad. The problem is that it's trying to look and act
> more and more like Outlook. Outlook just plain SUCKS! Outlook wasn't
> good when times were good. However, I have been sticking with Evolution
> because it has, by far, the best spell checking of any application I've
> ever used. And my English spelling is really that bad as to need this.
> So all in all it's been ok.
I've never used Lookout, so I don't know about similarities.
My most-used feature in E has been the summary page. Without that, I really
have little use for it. to my mind it has too many usability disabilities.
For starters, it often has the cursor in the wrong place so that instead of
']" advancing to the next unread, it gets typed into some window. It also
isn't good at hiding read mail; every time I change folder it forgets.
Viewing source occasionaly is a pain.
For _this_ list I'm using kmail which was formerly my primary email client.
It's okay but apparently won't sort imap. Or maybe that's just the version on
nahant; I do have it junking mail from one individual.
kmail does have spell checking though.
Mostly, I use tbird which does not check spelling but does hide read mail
fairly well and has good ideas about threading.
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John Summerfield
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