[ale] evolution dropping email

[Jay Lozier]

On 12/31/2011 10:27 AM, Leam Hall wrote:
> On 12/31/2011 08:31 AM, Mike Harrison wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Leam Hall wrote:
>>
>>> Tim,
>>>
>>> My frustration comes from one big incident. Evolution started to close
>>> up but didn't have enough disk space so instead of a smart bail I lost a
>>> good bit of e-mail. I just pulled it from every machine I had and
>>> haven't looked back.
>> I'm using evolution for my work-related google hosted mail,
>> which works... but I'd like to find a better client, especially
>> one that deals with the normal business world Outlook users
>> email insanity better.
>>
>> What did you change to?
>>
>> (I'm using Pine still for my personal stuff.. and as backup interface
>>     to work/gmail when all I can do is SSH out from a clients site..)
>>
> Mike,
>
> I use Thunderbird for mostly non-technical reasons. I'll share the logic
> on the off chance that someone else cares. If not, consider it a
> negative example.  :)
>
> I used to use Mutt and procmail but kept getting so many mails that I
> could not read that a more graphical client was needed. While my Linux
> friends did text, the rest of the world likes pretty images and I got
> tired of having to save the files and open them in something else. Hence
> the original move to Evolution.
>
> While I'm a Red Hat sort of guy I really dislike the cesspool that is
> inter-RPM dependencies. This needs that, you have to have perl to
> install PHP on a web server, etc. Nauseating, if you like efficiency.
> Evolution was one such offender both in the giving and receiving of
> dependencies.
>
> After some time I realized that all of my hardware is old and well past
> the MTBF point on most of the critical components. I also had to think
> through what is really important to me. Staying current in the field is,
> storing old dusty hardware (1) on the chance it might be used is not.
> Since I use Firefox as a browser I chose Thunderbird as the mail client.
> Distro portable and a large community behind it.
>
> I feel strongly that there is more work for me in helping solve business
> problems than in flipping bits for a living. So I use tools that
> non-hackers can use and I'm fixing to push myself into the cloud so I
> can talk to customers about it. I solve business problems for a living
> and my background is playing with Linux at home and at work for almost
> two decades.
>
> So my criteria  was an open source graphical client that non-Linux geeks
> can use and wasn't a fringe product. Thunderbird fit that bill.
>
> Make sense?

+1, I switched from Evolution to Thunderbird because Thunderbird is 
easier to setup and is less troublesome than Evolution. Thunderbird is 
much better for non-technical users and is also available in Windows/Mac 
versions.
>
> Leam
>
> (1) We'll ignore the fact that my main personal machine is an IBM T-30
> that struggles to keep up with the Fedora 14 it's running.
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