Kmail or Evolution?

[Michael Butash]

I used to use Thunderbird entirely until I worked for a company that ran
Exchange, so rather than run Evolution AND Thunderbird, I ended up
consolidating to Evolution alone.  At first it was painful circa Ubuntu
7.10 days crashing all the time, but it was the only usable way I could
access exchange with linux since M$ provides around 5% of the normal
functionality for non-activex capable clients with their "basic
mode" (i.e. screw anything non-M$).  I endured and watched it get
progressively better starting around 8.04 hardy, to rarely if ever
crashing on Jaunty.  At this point I'm pretty comfortable recommending
Evolution for even enterprise users.

I really have no experience with kmail, so can't say which is "better".
I do wish someone would port an exchange module for Thunderbird, with
it's new calendaring through Sunbird, I'd flip back in a second still.

-mb


On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 14:22 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> Francis Earl wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 07:08 -0700, mike Enriquez wrote:
> >> Which of these email clients do you like (Kmail or Evolution); and why?
> > 
> > I personally prefer Evolution for a few different reasons, amongst them,
> > calendar and contacts import more easily from Google sites. Also, one
> > thing that is seriously annoying about using Kmail is the fact you can't
> > view the next message easily from the one you're currently reading - you
> > have to close one mail window, find where you're at in your list of
> > e-mails, and then open the next one.
> 
> KMail can present the same list on top-mail on bottom interface that 
> most other clients can...
> And even if they couldn't, god invented the keyboard and shortcuts for a 
> reason ;)
> 
> Also, judging by what Nathan said, KMail can do import, too, super 
> easily (my DIMAP is still pulling my mail so I can't check)....
> 
> > 
> > I do like the presentation of Kmail - especially in 4.2 - though. The
> > default interface, grouping by date and more graphically structured is
> > definitely nice to look at. Evolution simply provides more useful
> > features, and despite not being as nice to look at, is just more
> > complete and ready for my needs.
> > 
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