On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 16:16 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:52 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > > > What I tend to dislike about Kmail are trivia such as the user > > > interface > > > (it seems fussier than Evo for some reason) plus the IMAP support > > has > > > in > > > the past not been so good, though that may have changed. > > > > I have two main accounts in Kmail, both IMAP, and one Gmail IMAP. > > Kmail > > handles them quite well. I have never tried to set them up in Evo. I > > have a work-issued windows laptop on which I have put Thunderbird for > > personal mail. Kmail seems to handle Gmail IMAP better than > > Thunderbird. It seems to handle my other IMAP account, hosted by > > Verizon Business (a personal account that used to be a business > > account) > > the same as Kmail. > > More to the point of the original post, I am going to assume that kmail > handles Gmail IMAP much better than evo. The reason is that if you move > other accounts over to your Gmail account, Gmail automatically tags the > mail with the name of these accounts. If you access Gmail with IMAP, > tags are presented as folders. As I mentioned before, kmail allows you > to associate folders with a particular identity, so mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to a folder with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] default > identity, so if I reply to it, the reply stays in that folder and it is > sent with the correct identity. OTOH, as evo cannot associate folders > with identities, I would have to remember to manually change the > identity when replying, especially when replying to lists where > subscription matters.
I subscribe to a couple of mailing lists via Gmail, one of them with a lot of traffic, and use Evo to access them. When I reply to a list message it goes out with the correct From address, simply because the list is on Gmail. Of course if I had a mixture of identities for my Gmail mail things would be different, but it works for me so far. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
