[ale] Ximian Evolution

Robert Heaven robertheaven at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 13 22:37:21 EDT 2002


I, sort of, had to switch to Evolution when I changed from AT&T
Broadband cable modem to Earthlink DSL because I never could figure out
how to get Mozilla mail to send to their SMTP server...

But, so far I like it...


On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:31, John Wells wrote:
> Don't forget that it doesn't support (afaik) return receipts or message
> priority (yet) ;-).  But I agree...overall a solid client!
> 
> John
> 
> 
>  On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:17, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > I have been a fan of Evolution for over a year now. They really did a
> > bang-up job on making a slick, polished, well running application. I
> > make heavy use of the incoming filters to sort my mail into appropriate
> > folders (ale, palinux, personal, spam->trash, makemoney->trash, offers
> > for porn->trash). If only they had usable documentation on the calendar
> > use for groups...
> > 
> > And it all syncs with my palm pilot pretty well too!
> > 
> > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:14, Jordi S. Bunster wrote:
> > > 
> > > > GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
> > > > <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> > > > Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 
> > > 
> > > Mmmm. Been trying Evolution for a while, and, albeit somewhat slow on my
> > > 400 bogomips machine, it is quite stable compared to the other graphical
> > > MUAs availabe on Debian 3.0, and support everything the other ones do
> > > (except sane use of core memory :)). Though, what I found really neat,
> > > is it support for the gnu privacy guard. I know I may sound like a
> > > Microsoft Windows user, but for example, James's message showed a small
> > > lock at the bottom. When I clicked on it, it downloaded the key, and
> > > checked the message against it, showing me gnupg's output. Also, saved
> > > the key here, of course.
> > > 
> > > I was using mutt before. But I just get too many email right now, some
> > > of it HTML, and I also did want to dig trough procmail to filter all the
> > > incoming stuff in mailboxes, and to also save the mails I send out.
> > > 
> > > Oh, Evolution also lets you store the mail you've been receiving, in
> > > Qmail's maildir format. I really like that.
> > > 
> > > Just though you might want to know.
> > > 
> > >  -- Jsb
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> > GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
> > <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> > Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 
> > 
> > 
> 
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