[ale] need some Evolution email magic

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:18 -0500, Ron Frazier wrote:
> I have two scenarios that I need help with re evolution email, which I
> just recently converted to.  The scenarios are listed below. 

I am going to give a more full reply on this one either later today or
tomorrow, but something I noticed right from the start is that you're
using multiple clients.

Use IMAP.  Seriously.  If you want your MUA to store messages locally as
well, nearly every single one that I am aware of (including Evolution)
supports the notion of "offline" folders, where all messages will be
synchronized locally.  If you do that one single thing, your life in
managing mail will become so much easier.  Guaranteed.  Shared state
between multiple systems is so, so valuable.

Also, one other thing:  Evolution absolutely has its share of bugs.
Thunderbird, IME, has even more of them (at least for my own personal
usage patterns, which involve sometimes sending HTML mail, sometimes not
sending HTML mail, several email accounts in several different places,
etc.).  If you want something rock-solid that works and is (relatively)
free of bugs, I'd recommend something like mutt or Alpine.

Or, shoot, you can always hop in and try to fix Evolution's or
Thunderbird's bugs.  Evolution's code base is far easier to read,
navigate, and patch than Mozilla's, even though Evolution is in C; it's
pretty well-written code and you can get in and out once you have a
roadmap very easily.  I spent a year one week trying to fix a bug in
Thunderbird, and that's why I wound up going to Evolution.  :-)

	--- Mike
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