Comments on: Switch to Evolution

By: Peng Hardin

Peng Hardin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:14:19 +0000

Thanks for this post. After moving to Evolution I'm finally able to read all of my RSS feeds without switching between the feed reader and my web browser (unless the post includes Flash, of course). I'm still fighting with syncing my PDA with Evolution, but there's one thing I miss from Thunderbird: The ability to see just the folders with unread messages. Have you found a way to do this? I know there's a way to search and get unread messages but I really liked seeing the folders, not just the messages.

By: There’s got to be an easier way « I’m Just an Avatar

There’s got to be an easier way « I’m Just an Avatar — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:12:09 +0000

[...] by Peng on 11 June 2008 After reading Sense Hofstede’s post about moving from Thunderbird to Evolution and finally being able to sync all the info to his PDA I [...]

By: jpoa

jpoa — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:20:47 +0000

My God… What have you done?
Tried it once. So slow, terrible spam filters, and slow.
Oh, and it is also slow.

But hey, best of lucks pal!

By: Kirrus

Kirrus — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:08:41 +0000

Heh… Not really a hack or feature. But I just un-installed Evolution from my box… I’ve found it to be useless in the long run.

Its just too buggy! The number of crashes, problems, corruptions, deaths, panics and general horriblenesses its caused made me give up. I’ve just switched back to Thunderbird.

Another thing I found was… every time I reported a bug with it, the devs would just come back and say “Not enough information. Give us more. Including debug symbol tracings.” Without telling me what debug symbols were, or where to get them…

Anyway, good luck with it. I suggest that you tweak the icons on the left hand side to be smaller (No text, just icons)… I think its under the View menu… I found that that saved screen space…

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:52:28 +0000

I don’t use Evolution anymore. Not because it’s bad (since it’s not, and in some ways superior to Kontact that I’m using now), but because

1. I wanted something more integrated with KDE (not applicable to you, and it can be made to be decently KDE-friendly if you take the time)
2. More importantly. it felt so slow. Granted, that was a few versions ago (whatever version it was that was included with Feisty) so it may have improved. And no, that wasn’t because I ran it under KDE. It felt just as slow in its “native” Gnome environment.

I’m not sure why it felt so slow but I suspect it was because my mail archive was so big (let me put it this way…it was originally mails delivered into my Outlook Express client when I used Windows 95, converted to a standard Outlook .pst mailbox of approximately 1.5 gig in size when I converted to Win2000 and Outlook and then converted to Thunderbird, and finally into Evolution/Unix format when I switched to Linux full-time and I haven’t really gotten around to prune away the crud – what can I say, I’m a packrat).

What I’m getting at: does it steel feel kinda slow? Especially since you too apparently keep a lot of mails around for extended periods of time.