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[Denis Leroy]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:01 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
>> I find Evolution to be completely unusable for IMAP folders.  I have 
>> dozens of IMAP folders with tens of thousands of messages on two 
>> servers.  Thunderbird seems to handle this a LOT faster than evolution 
>> and crashes less often.
> 
> 
> I've been using evolution with imap folders since 2002. I've never had
> this sort of pain. Furthermore synchronization of imap to local works
> well, too.

I use both evolution and thunderbird with IMAP :-) evolution for work, 
thunderbird for personal and FOSS stuff. I find thunderbird's GUI easier 
to use on those large FOSS threaded mailing lists. Over time I think 
i've suffered more from evolution bugs than thunderbird one, but thigns 
are pretty stable now.