On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 11:35 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > I don't want to tell you how to run your life and feel free to ignore > this. But if you seriously want use Evolution, or indeed Linux, in a > production environment, then I would strongly advise you not to run a > distro that chases latest versions - use a solid, stable, enterprise > Linux such as RHEL/CentOS/SL or SuSe or Debian..
I never used a more stable distro than Arch. Especially Suse and Debian are very unstable. > Evolution is most certainly not a "hobby" use MUA - the issue is that > you are using features that are not enterprise features. Most > businesses that don't use Exchange will use an IMAP server with junk > filtering at the MTA: junk filtering on the desktop is just not a > scalable solution, nor is the use of POP (we don't even support POP and > it is turned off on all my mail servers). Ok, then Evolution simply is not the correct MUA for me, since I'm not a big company I do everything with the desktop computer. > Use IMAP. It would solve many of those problems No, I used IMAP and it added tons of problems, especially when using it with Evolution. > - it will make > migration to another client much easier. If your provider doesn't > support IMAP or you want to have the mail on your own machine (for > whatever reason), then you may well be better of running something like > fetchmail to retrieve your mail and deliver it to your local SMTP server > - that way you can run a local IMAP server and you can scan the mail for > spam/viruses and filter it before Evolution even sees it. The filtering > need not just be for junk - you can do all the sorting in to different > folders based on the mail contents as well (procmail is your friend > here, or use an MTA like Exim). I already do some filtering at my ISP's server, but I want to be able to do some things with Evolution, I want to sort Junk and then decide what to do with it. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
