Move Evolution to Extras?

[Peter Robinson]

> > Isn't Evolution sort of, kind of, maintained by our fair friends over at
> > Novell/Suse ?  Does that have anything to do with this "Death to Evo"
> > thread?
> >
> > The only over riding reason to _still_ use Evolution is to interface
> > directly to a MS Exchange server.
> >
> > I happen to use it out of habit, not because it's better/worse.  I
> > perceive the mail filtering rules to be easier to configure and more
> > robust than Thunderbird, but that may be _MY_ perception.
>
> As much as I absolutely loath Evolution I tend to agree, the filtering
> and the way it displays threads seem much more natural than any other
> mailer I've tried. That doesn't stop the massive amount of unrelated
> suckage though, like the infamous #217567 wherein Evolution entirely
> refuses to send mail for no apparent reason or the many other quirks.
>
> Evolution currently is the best of a lot of bad choices, it would be
> nice if somewhere down the line we could find a replacement, especially
> one that didn't come bundled with all this groupware functionality all
> in one app. A simple mailer which can inter-operate with something like
> Contacts and Dates to make a nicely separated PIM suite which shares
> information would be ideal in my mind. Anything else seems to be begging
> for disaster to me, complexity breeds the kind of madness Evolution has
> become.

Well the tinymail framework is sort of on the way to this. I think evo
would be an improved beast if the evo team would start integrated a
lot of the work the guys at openedhand have done like some of the
memory improvements, the conversion from ORBit to dbus etc. At the
moment I think there are 3+ branches of evo code so it would be nice
to see some of that merged to actually see what the state of play with
evo is.

Peter