Re: pro's and con's of Evolution mail reader?
I think the Evolution is snazzy, too. But I have personally, even with 1.0.5, had it devoured my mailbox which wasn't cool at all. Sypheed has never done that to me. Sylpheed is a perfect lightweight mailclient to use.
Uzoma
On 15 Jul 2002 12:21:45 -0400
David Poisson <david@fishy.ca> wrote:
> Well, I personally love evolution. It's a great program to manage mail
> and appointments / tasks. While I was writing this email, I verified
> with tops and it says evolution (the main process) was using 0.4% of my
> 1.133Mhz pIII CPU and 4.3% of my memory (total 384Mb, which is 16.5Mb).
> It is definately more heavy than pine or other command line mail
> readers, although I would think it is comparable to other GUI based
> readers.
>
> There are a lot of nifty features. You can use it to check multiple
> accounts (IMAP, POP2, POP3, local and even read mail from a exchange 2k
> server). You can setup various mail filters (incoming or outgoing) which
> are layed out like an IF condition (if <list of conditions> THEN
> <perform actions>). You can have SSL encryption for both incoming and
> outgoing mail.
>
> You have a calender on which you can set appointments with multiple
> reminders. You also have a task list with due dates.
>
> There is of course a contact manager. Which is pretty much like other
> mail program's address book.
>
> I've never encountered any fonts problems and I only have the default X
> fonts installed, so I can't really testify on that.
>
> I personally love it, it's powerful, convenience and easy to use.
>
> Fish
>
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 12:09, Gale Stafford wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've been using Kmail for a month now with only a few problems. But I'm
> > hearing good things about Evolution. I have just 80 MB of RAM, though. How
> > does Evolution compare to other mail readers in memory usage?
> >
> > Also, I like KMail's fonts. It renders the fonts quickly, whereas other mail
> > readers like Mozilla mail seemed sluggish in this area. Does Evolution render
> > fonts swiftly?
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> > Gale Stafford
> >
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