<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.16.3"> <TITLE>Re: I HATE Evolution ! Thunderbird ?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:56 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> On Monday 09 June 2008 11:08:46 am linuxguy wrote: > I've been using Evolution as my email client since RH8. I hate it > because it seems to get confused if one opens up an email or changes > [snip!] > Is anyone using Thunderbird like this ? How does it compare ? How hard > is it to move over to it ? > Thanks </BLOCKQUOTE> [snip!] <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> 2) I have tried Kmail and again, it has it's own set of problems, one involving threads, and it is SLOW depending on your MB. I am using an Intel dual-proc Core-Duo w/2GB ram and it is slow only because it needs to sync and process each email messages if you enable thread support. It seems faster without threading enabled. By threading, I mean email threading. I LOVE the versatility of configuring the Fonts for each gui panes. Very nice. This is my current email client. As with Thunderbird, when you click on a folder, it is at this point where synchronization to the server gets updated and you have to wait until it is finished - the CPU hits hard, slowing things down, so you are somewhat forced to wait before beginning the next step. I wish that this process is done automatically, is niced, and happens transparently, but it is what it is. </BLOCKQUOTE> Well... I'd have to say that KMail is not for me. It *really* sucks with threading turned on. I am using an IMAP server (not mboxes or local files), so every time I click on a directory (or folder), it takes an inordinate amount of time to process each and every file (new and old) and sucks CPU like crazy. I'd have to wait for several minutes before my computer is usable. Also, I noticed that when I have KMail running, it seems to get into a "loop" and resends several duplicates of the same messages, over and over - creating sometimes 10 copies of the same messages back into my IMAP server! Geez. Forget it. Even though EVO's GUI sucks for configurability (fonts for each pane, default message title-bar for each directory(folder) {I want Subject: Sender: Date and not Sender:Subject:Date for example}, default thread message collapse for each directory (folder) is absent or has to be manually set, every time), but EVO is very fast with threaded message processing. It does not tie up my system. Heck, I don't even have to wait. But, I hate the IMAP synchronization when EVO is not running for awhile and needs to be sync'ed to the IMAP sever - well I hope someday this will all be improved.- but as it is, it is still better than most email clients I have tried so far. That means KMail and Thunderbird. I haven't tried many others such as seamonkey - I will defer that for another time. Sigh, back to EVO as my default email client. <IMG SRC="cid:1213217777.4553.56.camel@gold.cdkkt.com" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":/" BORDER="0"> Dan </BODY> </HTML>