Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

[Tom Buskey]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:

>
> Well, I must admit I still like the old exmh mailer, but more and more
> Evolution "works for me".   I guess if I did not use software just
> because it has "a close resemblance to software generated by the Evil
> Empire then I would not use OpenOffice either.
> Finally, after using it the whole day, and working with the hundreds of



I am sure that Evolution will not be liked by everyone.  I started using
> it to be compatible with a project that I was working with, so I could
> help out our customers, who were more likely to use Evolution then they
> were exmh.  I had nothing against exmh, and would probably still be
> using it today other than the project I mentioned.
>

exmh was a very nice setup.  I had procmail sorting incoming mail into the
folders.  I had scripts that would move mail into subfolders organized by
month/year automatically.  iFile(?) was an addition the MH that would learn
how you were moving things between folders & start moving them for you.

Unfortunately, it really needed a GUI (X11) and local access to the MH
folders.  So an SSH to a text client or didn't work so well and you couldn't
us IMAP for a lower bandwidth connection.  And most IMAP server don't deal
well with MH folders.  And even worse with subfolders.

I've given up and use gmail for everything except work, which uses
Outlook/Exchange.  *sigh*
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