Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (929 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/26/2011 07:02 PM, George OLson pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On 08/26/2011 12:41 PM, Joaquin Sosa wrote:
> > The software you currently use is a PIM, meaning not only is it an
> > email client, it also has calendaring, tasks, etc.
> >
> > Thunderbird is just an email client.
> > Kontact is just a contact manager.
> >
> > Of the software you mention, Evolution would be the best suited for
> > you. Being a die-hard Outlook user, if you ignore the limitations in
> > Evolution (mainly no Exchange 2007 or 2010 support) I think Evolution
> > is a great replacement for Outlook.
>
> When I read everyone's response, and couple it with other emails in the
> list that I see, here is basically what I come up with:
>
> Thunderbird is great, has the fewest problems, though it does crash for
> some people. And it takes some tweaking to get used to it.
>
> Kmail is powerful and works well, but it has "gremlins" which are slow
> to resolve, and can make the whole system unusable, as mine has so far
> in my trial with not being able to connect to any IMAP server, and not
> issuing any error message to help with troubleshooting.
>
> Evolution would require me to switch to GNOME,

Actually no you don't. Installing evolution will bring along many gnome 
applications but evolution can run just fine in KDE, I have run it in 
the past.

> and I am not yet prepared
> to do that. If I really need familiarity with Outlook style this is the
> one to go with, but I am not sure that is necessary at this point.
>
> Great to hear everyone's responses, and I will keep on working on this.
> It is never really over!
>
> George


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