On Apr 9, 2005 2:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What the HECK is WRONG with Evolution? It's tantalizing in it's capabilties, > but I found a number of serious problems: > > - It is bad slow, whether blacklist spamblock is enabled or not
Yes, this is prbably the main reason I gave up after struggling with it for a year or so. > - Can't use the "send as new message" function to re-send an email you've > just received, Probably due to some philosophical constraint from powers that be among the developers. They probably feel that this would allow users to "plagiarize" incoming e-mail, too easily, and that they should use forward instead so that there would be an audit trail. > - Can't select/cut/paste from a received email into a new composing email, > - When you do cut/paste something, you've got to do it slowly and not switch > the windows too fast, or the paste buffer will just belch everything out and > have nothing in it. > Never tried it, but maybe related to the previous point. > I don't get it: Evolution's been around much longer than Thunderbird - I > would've thought it would be rock solid by now. I'm running, not walking, > back to Thunderbird. As I said, the developers of Evolution seem to have a strong attitude. The strongly believe in cleaving to their interpretation of RFCs which is for the most part a good thing, although they sometimes miss on the be strict in what you produce and lax in what you accept which is often needed to make a program a pleasure to use or even usable at all. While I was an evo user I followed the mailing list and got a strong impression of the key developers. While I understand and symphathize with the idea that if you don't like it, here's the source code go fix it, I got the feeling that the evo team really didn't care very much about input from users as opposed to other developers and rfc lawyers. So now tbird is my choice for non-Gmail mail. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
