[Novalug] Email Clients

[Peter Larsen]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 21:35 -0400, American Dave wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:48:51PM -0700, Aaron Porter wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Sean McGowan
> > <scepticanagramwonk at verizon.net> wrote:
> > > Any comments?
> > 
> > Mutt in screen. Threading, regex search/tag/act, all my mail in one
> > sane, stable state no matter how many times I attach to the session.
> 
> Seconded.  I use Mutt/Vim.  At work I use Evolution to speak to the
> Exchange server, otherwise I'd use Thunderbird because it checks
> spelling while you compose messages.

My experience with Evolution is not good. I use it, for that exact
reason (exchange access) but the exchange module is so buggy my client
crashes many times a day, doesn't display all mail and has more than a
couple of issues with the calendar function.

Even the pop/imap accounts are impacted. Put mildly - Evolution is SLOW.
It lacking important (to me) features but since it seems to be the only
game in two to access exchange data source I have to stick with it. 

If anyone knows of a linux client that will do Exchange mail and
calendar I'll be very grateful.

PS. One of my most often typed commands on this laptop is: evolution
--force-shutdown    Evolution simply hangs, fails or messes itself up. I
will be working in different apps, and all of a sudden bug-buddy shows
up on evolution.

PPS. I noticed that several of my problems are old bugs on the evolution
bugzilla site. They've been "dismissed" or they're downplayed as not
important. This, to me, isn't a good sign. I'm definitely on the hunt
for an alternative client.

-- 
Peter Larsen <plarsen at famlarsen.homelinux.com>
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