From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 17:02:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E12316A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 17:02:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta1.adelphia.net (mta1.adelphia.net [68.168.78.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3275143FB1 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 17:02:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andi_payn@speedymail.org) Received: from [10.1.0.9] ([68.65.235.109]) by mta1.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031103010505.UDOP16569.mta1.adelphia.net@[10.1.0.9]>; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:05:05 -0500 From: andi payn To: Harald Schmalzbauer In-Reply-To: <200311030050.13356@harrymail> References: <1067780795.3602.16.camel@tyrael.linnet> <1067804802.3602.58.camel@tyrael.linnet> <20031102232118.GA37022@moo.holy.cow> <200311030050.13356@harrymail> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1067821351.825.612.camel@verdammt.falcotronic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:02:31 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Evolution without gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 01:02:34 -0000 On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:50, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Well, even this incredible slow thunderbird was better than evolution IMHO. I have a pretty complicated setup--multiple identities, even more IMAP mailboxes, mailing lists that I want to filter into separate folders and auto-purge, a Palm to sync with, etc. If you don't need all this, something simpler should work fine. However, if you need something complicated, I don't think anything can match Evolution 1.4--including Outlook Express, Outlook, and Eudora, and Thunderbird and kmail (and especially including Evolution 1.2). For example, it's the only one that handles filtering IMAP properly (the kmail people refuse to accept a patch to add this)--although the vfolders feature means you might not need to anyway. It's the only one that handles error conditions like mail servers that occasionally go down for hours on end, running out of disk space, incomplete Palm sync'ing, etc. properly. In short, it does everything I need, and it just works. Plus, even on the slowest machine I have (PPro 200), it's still (just barely) usable (at least with a light Gtk 2 theme, running under fvwm2).