[svlug] De-Evolutioning my system.

[Tim Utschig]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:17:22PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
> All,
> 
>    Increasingly I'm growing frustrated with Evolution on my
> work system.  I have to interface with all aspects of exchange
> (Calendaring,mail, address book, tasks etc) and so I need a
> mail program that can do all of these.  
> 
>    Evolution does touch all of these, but I'm growing
> increasingly frustrated with their changes to function that
> IMHO decrease usability.  (why did they introduce a "feature"
> where they require you to request a preview window be shown,
> every time it crashes?)  


I used with Evolution at work (as usual, it's an Exchange
environment) for nearly two years, suffering through the frequent
crashes, the "Folder out of sync" messages (or whatever it said),
and its random silent IMAP failures after which it did not
receive new mail until restarted (this made me switch to POP3
after a while).

Over a year ago I switched to Thunderbird + Lightning w/ LDAP for
address book and have been much happier.  Thunderbird has never
crashed on me (that I can remember), and never fails to instantly
show me new mail via IMAP.  I also like its interface much more
than Evolution's.

However Lightning (as packaged in Ubuntu 7.10 "gutsy") is buggy.
When I accept meetings it usually displays them in my Calendar
using the GMT/UTC time zone rather than my local time zone.
Although it still pops up the alerts at the correct time.  It
doesn't seem to handle updates to existing meetings, or cancelled
meetings.  It doesn't annoy me much, since I don't receive more
than one new meeting request every few weeks.

Someday I'll get around to upgrading my work laptop to Ubuntu
8.04 "hardy".  Maybe (hopefully) those bugs are fixed in newer
versions of Thunderbird + Lightning.

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   - Tim Utschig <tim at tetro.net>