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"Thunderbird is actually pretty cool once you customize it a little (it even works with Google's Calendar and Tasks)." I used Thunderbird for many years, but s
by mike-cardwell 13y ago
"Thunderbird is actually pretty cool once you customize it a little (it even works with Google's Calendar and Tasks)."
I used Thunderbird for many years, but switched to Evolution this year. I remember trying Evolution a few years ago and being unimpressed. It has come a long way since then.
Evolution also supports Googles calendar/tasks and also supports PGP. These things are built in to the main app though, rather than being included as addons. Evolutions LDAP support includes write support too (unlike Thunderbird) if that's useful to you. I've also found the UI to be faster and more responsive than Thunderbirds.
Also Thunderbird development has been pretty much abandoned by Mozilla, yet Evolution is under heavy development. Just take a look at their git log:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/log/ https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/log/
So yeah. Give Evolution a try if you haven't for a while. It's a great IMAP client.
- brightsize 13y agoThanks for the heads-up on Evo. I was a longtime user until switching to T-bird in the mid-00s because it was a lot more visually attractive to me and more configurable/extensible. I see what you mean, Evo seems to have made big strides since then, definitely worth a test-drive for a while.