I HATE Evolution ! Thunderbird ?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:56 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

> On Monday 09 June 2008 11:08:46 am linuxguy wrote: 
> > I've been using Evolution as my email client since RH8.  I hate it 
> > because it seems to get confused if one opens up an email or
> changes 
> > [snip!] 
> > Is anyone using Thunderbird like this ?  How does it compare ?  How
> hard 
> > is it to move over to it ? 
> > Thanks

[snip!]

> 2) I have tried Kmail and again, it has it's own set of problems, 
>     one involving threads, and it is SLOW depending on your MB. 
>     I am using an Intel dual-proc Core-Duo w/2GB ram and it is slow 
>     only because it needs to sync and process each email messages 
>     if you enable thread support.  It seems faster without threading 
>     enabled. By threading, I mean email threading.  I LOVE the
> versatility 
>     of configuring the Fonts for each gui panes.  Very nice.  This is
> my 
>     current email client. As with Thunderbird, when you click on a
> folder, 
>     it is at this point where synchronization to the server gets
> updated and 
>     you have to wait until it is finished - the CPU hits hard, slowing
> things 
>     down, so you are somewhat forced to wait before beginning the
> next 
>     step.  I wish that this process is done automatically, is niced,
> and 
>     happens transparently, but it is what it is.


Well...  I'd have to say that KMail is not for me.  It *really* sucks
with
threading turned on.  I am using an IMAP server (not mboxes or local
files), so every time I click on a directory (or folder), it takes an
inordinate
amount of time to process each and every file (new and old) and sucks
CPU like crazy.  I'd have to wait for several minutes before my computer
is usable.  Also, I noticed that when I have KMail running, it seems to
get
into a "loop" and resends several duplicates of the same messages, over
and over - creating sometimes 10 copies of the same messages back into
my IMAP server!  Geez.  Forget it.

Even though EVO's GUI sucks for configurability (fonts for each pane,
default
message title-bar for each directory(folder) {I want Subject: Sender:
Date and
not Sender:Subject:Date for example}, default thread message collapse
for each
directory (folder) is absent or has to be manually set, every time), but
EVO is very
fast with threaded message processing. It does not tie up my system.

Heck, I don't even have to wait.  But, I hate the IMAP synchronization
when EVO
is not running for awhile and needs to be sync'ed to the IMAP sever -
well I hope
someday this will all be improved.- but as it is, it is still better
than most email clients
I have tried so far. That means KMail and Thunderbird.  I haven't tried
many others
such as seamonkey - I will defer that for another time.

Sigh, back to EVO as my default email client. :/

Dan

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