Evolution vs Thunderbird
It didn’t take time for me to throw out the Evolution email client from my Ubuntu platform. Instead, I installed Mozilla’s Thunderbird, an email client which I’m very familiar with. What caused the switch? Well, I was trying to configure an email account running on an IMAP server. I had a terrible time in getting it to work. After so many unsuccessful tries, it was time for me to kiss the Evolution package goodbye. I’m glad it’s gone because Thunderbird is working just fine in Ubuntu.
To remove Evolution package:
#sudo apt-get remove evolution
To Install Mozilla Thunderbird
#sudo apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird
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Evolution works just fine in Ubuntu as well, don’t fault the application for not working because you couldn’t set it up. It wasn’t working how you wanted it to, perhaps, but it was working just fine. I’m not quite sure I like evolution due to the interface itself, but I have problems with Thunderbird as well, since I use it on my Windows box. Both of them run flawlessly on the machines they are on, it’s just my personal taste or ability to use that would change.
All my IMAP accounts work =)
Kaylus. I think it was more of a frustration on my part after trying several times in getting my IMAP account to work in Evolution. I’m sure IMAP works fine in Evolution, but I have been unable to get it to work. I tried searching for instructions online, but I haven’t seen any good documentation. So, that where I’m at at this time.
I just tried Evolution, it looks fine, but I’ll go back to Tbird, as I have it set with a ton of extensions the way I want. What I really miss from Pegasus is the ability to see the contents of several mail folders, and the filtering system, that would run whenever you opened or closed a mail folder. I might go to using Tbird for sending, and Pegasus for receiving.
evolution is owned by novell which has sold patents to microsft, evolution is not free software. use thunderbird instead.
For me, Evolution historically has been a fairly unstable and quirky application. Attempting, for example, to sync it against Exchange servers can be an exercise in banging one’s head against the wall given how often it might stall in the middle of the process. Likewise I just finished setting it up for my ISP email, encountered a sync error in the middle, it doubled every message in my store, and crashed. So now I move onto the next app is all.
I agree that someone not getting it to work should not condemn an app anymore than someone saying it works great for him should mean that it is gold and stable.