[Novices] Evolution mail client

[Mike Williams]

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>From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
>Subject: Re: [Novices] Evolution mail client
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>I like Thunderbird,  I use it on Windows (in VMware on Linux  :)  since I
>have users who use it.
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>>> Thunderbird is good too, but it has enough differences from Evolution
>>> that it drives me nuts (because I'm used to EV).  If you're going to try
>>> it, do it before you get too used to Evolution.
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>And it doesn't come close to offering the integration with other
>information like Tasks, Calendar, Contacts, etc... where  Evolution
>CLEARLY rules to roost.  And the next version of evolution - I've tested
>it to checkout the OpenGroupware integration (Yea Baby!), takes this to
>the NEXT level;  you can even attach documents to appointments.  And the
>possibilities of the D-BUS plugin (included in the next version) are
>simple MIND BOGGLING.  Wow!  There once was this software company called
>Microsoft.....
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It's unlikely Thunderbird will ever try to integrate calendaring and 
other Evolution / Outlook tasks.  The point of the Firefox and 
Thunderbird projects was to take one task and do it well, rather than 
try to do everything poorly.  The original Mozilla source tree might try 
to challenge Evolution and Outlook, but who knows?  I haven't looked 
back since switching to Thunderbird at about version 0.4.