Evolution Mail

[Richb2004v2]

Should I use evolution mail?

I know it's basically like MS Outlook which I've never had cause to use other than occasionally at work. I only use a simple Yahoo mail account so wonder if there would be any advantage for me in using it. I like trying new things but without good reason is probably a waste of time.

[thaimite]

I think like me you are dual booting and the windoze version of Evolution is very buggy. so if you want one email client for both systems stay awayf from it.

I originally tried it for their virtual folders which is basically a saved search function that can automatically group emails by sender or subject or whatever your search criteria is but without having to make multiple copies of each email.

However now I use Thunderbird with my profile set up to be common to both my windoze and Ubuntu systems and it works great AND also has the virtual folder option which I find very useful.

I have not changed to Thunderbird 3 yet though as the Lightening add on which is essential in an office environment when sharing calenders and appointments with colleagues using M$ Lookout is not quite ready for version 3.

I am told the beta works well though but as Thunderbird 2 is stable and does all I want, I see no reason to change yet

I am still looking for an equivalent to Birdie sync for Linux that will let me sync my windoze mobile email with Thunderbird. I have tried a few possibilities but none of them are as easy to use.

Edited January 12, 2010 by thaimite

[siamect]

I have used Evolution in the past but it get slow when you have large amount of emails.

There has been bugs but the community has done a good job.

The windows version seem a little pointless to me... I have used it long time ago, but as mentioned earlier it was a bug nest.

I use K-mail (part of KDE4) and I like it massively...

Basically I don't like web based emails systems because I want to have all my emails in my own computer. I don't always have internet access and I don't want my email to be on a server outside my control for longer time than necessary.

I get all my emails into one laptop and one desktop computer and I never delete any mails just move them. That way I have them is two places in case anything happens.

Martin

[joncl]

Evolution mail works very well even with the 2000 odd mails (mostly old) in the main directory (down to the pc's processor I guess and memory if it is slow). The spam filter is quick to learn which is great. I prefer it over a web based mail system any day of the week.

[siamect]

Evolution mail works very well even with the 2000 odd mails (mostly old) in the main directory (down to the pc's processor I guess and memory if it is slow). The spam filter is quick to learn which is great. I prefer it over a web based mail system any day of the week.

I guess I have about 120 000 mail in total and about 34 661 email in one directory. K-mail can handle this without any delay at all, but Evolution has problem far earlier...

Martin

[joncl]

Opps I stand corrected

[Thanh-BKK]

Hi.

I personally have not used Evolution but Thunderbird and can only recommend it. Works with my provider e-mail (True), G-Mail and Hotmail like a charm, no issues or delays with huge mailboxes (talking about well over 50,000 saved mails) and multiple accounts (3 Hotmail, 2 G-Mail, 1 ISP).

Best regards.....

Thanh

[Richb2004v2]

Hi.

I personally have not used Evolution but Thunderbird and can only recommend it. Works with my provider e-mail (True), G-Mail and Hotmail like a charm, no issues or delays with huge mailboxes (talking about well over 50,000 saved mails) and multiple accounts (3 Hotmail, 2 G-Mail, 1 ISP).

Best regards.....

Thanh

So with these services do I have to open an actual new email account and will it then take the mail from my other web based services eg yahoo? Will I only be able to access this on a machine with iether Evolution or Thunderbird installed?

I also have an initial problem as soon as it asks questions about my server. It asks if I am using POP or something. I have no idea what this means so I'm stuck straight away.