On Tuesday 07 December 2004 00:51, Joe Klemmer wrote: > Synopsis: > Evolution hangs for 5 minutes or more when connecting to an IMAP > server, thus rendering email reading impossible. This happens with all > IMAP servers. The hanging "feature" does not exist under Thunderbird. > Does anyone know what causes this and, more importantly, how to fix it? I do not have that problem, but then my imap server is on my LAN. > > Rant: > I have been using Evolution for my email for quite a while now. > It always seemed to me that every version increase would lose some > feature or function that was great. Over all it keeps getting worse and > worse as the versions go up. Now FC3 ships with Evolution 2. The UI > changes are really bad. The problem is that it's trying to look and act > more and more like Outlook. Outlook just plain SUCKS! Outlook wasn't > good when times were good. However, I have been sticking with Evolution > because it has, by far, the best spell checking of any application I've > ever used. And my English spelling is really that bad as to need this. > So all in all it's been ok. I've never used Lookout, so I don't know about similarities. My most-used feature in E has been the summary page. Without that, I really have little use for it. to my mind it has too many usability disabilities. For starters, it often has the cursor in the wrong place so that instead of ']" advancing to the next unread, it gets typed into some window. It also isn't good at hiding read mail; every time I change folder it forgets. Viewing source occasionaly is a pain. For _this_ list I'm using kmail which was formerly my primary email client. It's okay but apparently won't sort imap. Or maybe that's just the version on nahant; I do have it junking mail from one individual. kmail does have spell checking though. Mostly, I use tbird which does not check spelling but does hide read mail fairly well and has good ideas about threading. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
