I HATE Evolution ! Thunderbird ?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 14:04 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:56 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > 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
> [snip!]
> > 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.
> 
> 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. :/
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still...for exchange server and evolution, I would recommend that you
set up the Exchange connector instead of IMAP.

Craig