Yeh, I can imagine that could be so frustrating. Is there no official PPA? Obviously Thunderbird is always kept up to date and I've just become super used to it. I just always like to keep an eye on the GNOME apps for the integration.
On 15/09/15 16:23, Paul Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 14:06 +0100, Leo Francisco wrote: >> Is anyone out there in our community actually using Evolution as their >> main email client? I cannot get it to work well for me any which way I >> try. > Yes, I use it as my one and only email client for home and work and I > have for over 10 years, since I was forced to drop Emacs VM when my > company at the time switched to Exchange for email (luckily I've since > moved on from there and don't need to mess with Exchange anymore, but I > didn't switch back). > > The biggest problem with Evolution in Ubuntu GNOME is that the version > provided by Ubuntu is always at least one and sometimes more major > releases behind the current version. This means we don't get fixes or > enhancements anymore and reporting bugs to the Evolution team is > difficult since we can't test the latest version. In fact some people > on the Evo mailing lists are at least subtly dismissive of anyone using > Ubuntu since we almost always have old buggy versions. > > I used to build Evolution myself but since I don't need Exchange support > Evo is mostly "good enough" for me and I just live with the annoying > things that I know are already fixed in the next version... building Evo > from scratch is not for the faint of heart IME. > -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
