-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello On 26.8.2011 06:25, George OLson wrote:
Hey to all,
I am just looking for opinions from people that have used these programs, and how you might compare them. I am using thunderbird right now, but I find it very difficult to configure the GUI fonts. At the same time, I really like the ability to keep messages from the same thread together in my inbox or other folders, and thunderbird is far superior to outlook's handling of this.
I am migrating over from MS Outlook, and would like to import all my old email, besides my calendar, tasks, and address book. I started using thunderbird only because I am moderately familiar with it.
Any advice, and info on common problems you may have encountered, would be most helpful.
Thanks George
At work I have to use Outlook (because of MS Exchange) and it is the worst PIM I have tried. :-) I don't like it's way of viewing messages, I wish normal threads as are in KMail / TB / Evolution. :-) I was long time using KDE PIM (KMail, Kontact, KAddressbook, ...) and it worked very well. KMail had only problems with big IMAP folders. And I do not have experience with recent KMail 2. There were also issues with syncing of contacts and calendar with Google, but I'm not sure how is it now. Anyway, it is very good software. :-) Now I'm using Thunderbird with Lightning extension for calendar and it works fine. Because of often releases of new versions I have issues with not working add-ons ("plain" TB doesn't fulfill my needs;-), but again, it works fine. And if You are using GMail, TB is only supported software on Linux, so when You upload an email there using IMAP, it will have correct date and time, this doesn't work with KMail (might be it works in KMail 2, but I don't suppose so) or Evolution. Well, I don't use GMail for mails because it doesn't fulfill my needs :-) And everywhere, if You have mail in GMail tagged by multiple labels, it will be downloaded in every respective IMAP folder as independent mail. It is IMHO silly implementation of IMAP by Google... (no flame, please...;-) And on one older computer I have Ubuntu and Evolution. It works fine, it does everything I'd need and I didn't encounter any main issue. But I didn't work with it so much. So, all of those 3 apps work fine, it's on You personal opinion what to use. :-) About importing, IMHO the easiest way is to do it over IMAP. Good luck! Vojtěch - -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/cs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOV0IGAAoJEPuT69b4zaO5Ni0IAMFXL81FzT9qY2sAXxdR5epN JH7qfrzaJQKXz5ddVR3mO/Nz6OI1ebI/HkOIhG/ohA7z+YXAQCkmvgg7Z0RMUh2m wpVVhk1DjnsSV9HrfmDzXjgb2CnCr8K4hj6GSWu/ZS5k7SK0j8IbO+SZvQurqu5q D3jzelyFWzh6ieWLgT9H83dYrWYpoJavpxJWfm/Ydjuyxw5fflmj9t6eF0TACrMB Sna9cNvKCD3qMbiqsotYc54wmo9vlT0OnNZmjY5Qs10NRtfbO8vAL0DaFsxm2lcB IbJWDmerQQGRGC5gm36l6H3wMYVbfskAZgHfnj4l2oFJs6KUb0y2GmWY0zDpGzM= =Bs7v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org