hi all, I've stuck with evolution for years because it had a feature i really needed (Search Folders, updated in realtime). I've had some problems with it eating email (recently, and maybe half a year ago), so I'm sure that it's not as reliable as I'd like it to be.
I look at kmail every once in a while (not with every release, necessarily, I don't look at KDE very often). I just looked again and on Ubuntu Gutsy, it looks like it's finally got realtime-updated search folders. I've used sylpheed before, and I just looked at Thunderbird too, today. I don't know if sylpheed has realtime-updated search folders, I don't really remember why I left sylpheed, but I don't think I'm going back to it. Thunderbird, though, doesn't seem to have those realtime search folders. I tend to do some pretty harsh things to my mailer (e.g., since I don't currently run POP3/SMTP servers on my laptop, I run bogofilter inside a filter in the mailer, not from procmail, I also run a duplicated email finder (using formail) in an evolution filter (and yes, I see that kmail will find dups, although i haven't tested yet whether that works if the dup emails are in different folders, for instance, or if it'll work in a virtual [search] folder, since i can virtually aggregate mail from different folders into one virtual folder using a search). Opinions on general stability (mailer should not lose email that was already in the mailbox, evolution did, although it was while I was updating evolution, so possibly two different evolution data servers ran and mangled the mbox), features (realtime updated search folders that stick around between sessions, can run random scripts as if in procmail, but inside the mailer's filters, etc). I like kmail's ability to store mail in maildir format. On the other hand, I'm running XFS, not reiserfs, so I worry about my mail volume (currently only around 50,000, but i remove some emails, and I'm not counting spam) and the number of individual files on the disk putting too much stress on the filesystem. Experiences and tips from people with more than 50k email messages in maildir systems in their home directories would be appreciated. i prefer POP3 instead of keeping the email in IMAP because, while I'm familiar with the arguments for IMAP being more flexible, etc, I've never had good experiences with IMAP searches, they've always been slow on my mail. Evolution is reasonably fast (although it *could* be faster, maybe if the email were stored in a database instead and could take advantage of, e.g., something like postgresql tsearch2 or the mysql equivalent, or if there were some really superior indexing in there). Come to that, what filesystems are recommended for directories that might hold 20,000 files? Previously it was reiserfs, are XFS or JFS the new contenders? tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
