On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 23:01 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >Tried Evolution? > > Yes, and mutt, which somebody else suggested. Currently, I'm running > Windows on my home machine, so neither is an ideal solution.
as a longtime eudora user, the fact that linux had a good outlook clone (evolution) wasn't helpful to me. i don't like thunderbird because it's hard to create filters (you can't create a filter based on an existing message). i currently dual boot windows and linux, and have evolution running on both. the mail files are stored only in one place, under windows in ntfs, so when i switch to linux (with a clean shutdown, not hibernate) i can mount ntfs and have access to exactly the same mail, and vice versa. the only problem is that evolution for windows crashes frequently. it reloads quickly however and you don't lose data (rarely even the mail you were typing) so i stick with it hoping for improvements. i suspect it's not evolution that's crashing but all its overhead (gnome for windows and other stuff). in addition to its powerful filters (and general outlookish functionality) evolution has incredibly fast searching through all mails. this is a pretty unique feature (instant as you type message body search) that relies on efficient but still space-hogging indexation, which occasionally when evolution crashes on windows results in 10 gb index files that have to be manually deleted if you want that 10 gb back. -rishab
