[Bradford] Email client advice

[David Carpenter]

I use Evolution as my everyday mail client.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with it, but it's not been brilliant...

I used thunderbird for a long time and loved it - but I just used it as
an email client.

I decided to look at evolution because it seems to be what you'd use
instead of Outlook if you moved from Windows.

I never got spam filtering sorted out so that was not good - thunderbird
seemed to do it really well, and Outlook was just rubbish, but that
could be to do with me not setting it up right. I now filter my email
through google mail first!

The calendars in evolution have been the only reason my Ubuntu has ever
crashed! Recently there was an issue with it reading in data from google
calendars that just killed everything! Not good. I do read in stuff from
drupal calendars that works, and local calendaring and task/memos is
cool, but I don't really use it.

I feel like it's a key app though and the more people using it the more
it has a chance of become a viable alternative.

What I do like though, is that it seems to work for me now - It brings
in mail, it sends it out, it filters stuff into folders for me. 

Hope that gives an idea of how it is for me.

cheers
David

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 12:18 +0000, Wayne Hanley wrote:
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> I've been thinking for a while I should use a desktop mail client so I
> can work when I don't have a Internet connection available to me,
> granted this is not that often but still it would be  fairly
> desirable to have a local copy of at least the majority of my emails.
> 
> I'm a fairly heavy Google Apps user and use the (several public and
> private)Google Cals and Google Contacts to basically manage my life,
> so integrating with those is pretty much required.  Also
> something that plays nicely with gpg is would be nice as well. 
> So my choices thus far seem to be evolution and thunderbird. 
> I've used thunderbird in the past and though it was good it never
> really struck me as something utterly fantastic.  With a couple
> of plugins it does pretty much what I want (contacts syncing though ?)
> but I am wondering should I give evolution another go?  The last
> time I tried it found it to be very unstable and somewhat slow, but
> the level of desktop intergration to myself as a Ubuntu user is
> appealing. 
> 
> Can anyone give me any advice on this?  Maybe alternate clients
> that might meet my requirements or any words of wisdom/caution from
> users of either of those too apps?  I don't want to move away
> from gmail so I will be using imap to grab my mail but the other tools
> they offer are equally important.
> 
> Cheers
> Wayne
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