On 06/04/2011 02:59 PM, Indi wrote: > On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:44:30PM +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> Am 04.06.2011 23:10, schrieb Indi: >> >>> Every single GUI MUA I ever tried would lock up and become unresponsive >>> at times when dealing with IMAP. >> >> I use Thunderbird and IMAP for 3 years now and in all that time became >> TB never unresponsive. So this point seems to have improved since your >> testing. >> > > That's good to know, thanks. > I'm unlikely to switch from mutt (due in part to so many macros and > customizations accumulated the last couple of years), but am always > keeping an eye out for those I support. > > Maybe I'll put the next person who complains about evolution on > thunderbird and see how they do with it...
I've found evolution to be a perfectly fine email client -- but a disaster as an nntp client. Evolution insists on sending outgoing mail and fetching incoming mail *and* fetching all the headers from every newsgroup I read, all at the same time. Fetching the news headers takes for fscking *ever* (not unlike alpine) so I just stopped using evolution and alpine for news. Thunderbird is my every-day news and email client and I don't switch because it "just works" for me. BTW, evolution claims to be a substitute for the MS Office "Outlook" suite, so I'm assuming that whatever frustrations I have with evolution probably originate with Outlook. (But I can't support this claim with real evidence.)
