evolution and thunderbird

[Richard]

>Brendon wrote:
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>>i have found that evolution is much quicker than thunderbird,  have used
>>them both in breezy, and evo in dapper,  i find evo  much better.
>>and alot more better at doing multi pop accounts.
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>Oddly enough, I have found the exact opposite (though I have not tried
>dapper yet, other than the Live CD).  I mostly use IMAP accounts,
>though, so YMMV.  I'm also using the MoFo 1.5.0.2 build rather than
>what's in the Ubuntu package.
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>With every new GNOME release, I give Evo a shot, and I always go back. 
>While its feature set is very compelling, there are just too many
>annoying bugs for me that never seem to get fixed (and in some cases
>even looked at), such as:
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>    * Abysmally poor spam filter performance.
>    * An extra click and dialog box to see spelling suggestions
>      (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228594).
>    * The inability to control the composer's (display) font
>      independently of GTK menu/widget fonts
>      (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270025).
>    * Severely crippled HTML rendering and composing
>      (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269995,
>      http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247564).
>
>With the exception of the spam filter (I heard they switched to
>bogofilter, which is a lot faster), none of these seem to be fixed in
>Dapper.  I guess I'll try again with 2.8/Eft.
>
>Rich
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Stay with Firebird and Thunderbird, version 3, will be using sqlite 
embedded database.
Rich