Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2876 mails)

[Martin Mielke <m_mlk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I wasn't aiming to praise or flame either email client. I just wanted to know some opinions from you out there as Evolution is something "new" to me, from the user's perspective.

The biggest hassle I've found so far is: how to import Thunderbird emails (and I mean: the whole email structure, including folders and subfolders), filtering rules etc.

My first approach, you may laugh if you want, was to manually open each MH file under $HOME/.thunderbird/some-default-profile/Mail/Local Folders/filename and import it under Evolution as I don't see any "Export to..." tool in Thunderbird and Evolution won't import so easily ... also creating the proper destination folders structure when needed.... hmmm, maybe there's a fancy tool for that?? :-/

Well... I'll just keep an eye open on both mailers (don't bother to mention Sylpheed ;-) ) for a couple of days as I need to convince myself... although "abandoning" Thunderbird would be rather painful due to the years I've been using it...  jeez... :-)))


Thanks and regards,
Martin



----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Folsom <mwfolsom@xxxxxxxxx>
To: OpenSuSE <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:09:48 PM
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Evolution vs. Thunderbird

Folks:

Hate to break the chain of praise for Evolution but frankly I left it
and went back to Thunderbird because it is so incredibly slow.

It take a long time to open up when tied to a Exchange server but who
knows who is to blame for that but it also is sluggish when connected
to a pop server - Thunderbird is fast.


Later -


Michael


On 5/24/07, Pueblo Native <pueblonative@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Martin Mielke wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > far from wanting another "religious war"... is it me or is Evolution more feature-rich than Thunderbird?
> >
> >
>
>
> Maybe, but then again, there might be some situations where you don't
> want all those features.    The IMAP is intriguing though.  I set up my
> AIM account with Evolution and will give it a spin, but I think I'll
> stay with Thunderbird, if only for my own irrational reasons
> (integration with GMail + I've been with it so long).  It never spells a
> good thing when all the world chooses only one software; makes it too
> easy for script kiddies and such.
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