Mail clients - which way forward?

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Sun Mar 14 16:20:29 UTC 2010


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.

(I have to use Exchange for work, unforch...)

> 
> The upcoming Big Change is to throw out all the Bonobo stuff, which
> promises sunlit uplands and jam tomorrow. Let's hope so.
> 
> poc
> 
> 

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                Matthew Saltzman

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