Evolution Pain

[Robert L Cochran]

Evolution just doesn't seem ready for prime time, at least on x86_64 
boxes like I have. It is by far the most unstable of my Fedora Core 5 
applications -- it quits unexpectedly or stops responding at least once 
an email session, and often several times. The address book is too 
difficult to use -- for instance it won't autocomplete email addresses, 
and often an address you thought you added to the address book is lost 
in the bit bucket. I notice it takes way too long to download email -- 
longer than Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook or Outlook Express.

I guess I'll try Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 for a couple of weeks and see if it 
is any improvement. I tried it in the early, pre-1.0 versions and after 
several weeks it arbitrarily munched all my folders, leaving about half 
the contents of each one "invisible". I hope this version is an 
improvement.

Bob Cochran