Evolution mail unstable, please switch to Thunderbird for the next release...

[Jesse Palser]

  On 07/09/2010 07:39 AM, Tero Pesonen wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 12:44 -0400, Jesse Palser wrote:
>> On 07/08/2010 12:38 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>>>> SLNTHERO at aol.com :
>>>> Evolution mail unstable,
>>> Evolution is stable. Very stable.
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a programmer, and I think Evolution mail is very unstable.
>> It would crash more than one time every day.
>>
>> Mozilla Thunderbird 3 is the best email client for Ubuntu 10.04
>> Please include Thunderbird 3 as default email client in next Ubuntu
> Evolution Mail is stable but sluggish. Thunderbird, though snappier on
> IMAP, is not an acceptable replacement.
>
> Thunderbird has the issue that you cannot compose messages on it like on
> a normal, well-behaving mail client. The line you're writing just keeps
> going on and on and on and wraps only after it has rolled long past the
> right hand corner of the screen. The result is that the composer window
> will have a scroll bar which you need to scroll from left to right in
> case you want to read what you wrote above -- the lines are that long.
> There is no way to get rid of this and have the composer wrap at, say,
> 68 or 72 characters. This behaviour goes against all HCI and
> accessibility guidelines ever produced and renders the product useless.
> The "feature" is well-known though the motivation behind introducing it
> back in the original Mozilla Mail is not.
>
> Do not make Thunderbird default for anything till they fix message
> composition.
>
> Thanks,
> Tero Pesonen
>
Hi,

Thunderbird 3 is not perfect, but I strongly believe it is a better 
client than Evolution.

Some of the problems with Evolution that I had were:
- Random multiple crashes every day.
- Very slow updating of IMAP mailboxes.
- Filters did not work most of the time (had to manually sort mail).

Again, Thunderbird is not perfect, but I think its much better than 
Evolution

Jesse