Evolution or Thunderbird?

[dmitry_roslyakov]

What do you prefer?

I use Thunderbird. I tried Evolution but it displays subjects incorrectly for messages in Russian. Thunderbird does it well. So no chance for Evolution.

[engla]

Since I voted (Some months ago) I've switched from Thunderbird to Evolution. Evolution launches faster, has the calendar module and is better integrated to Ubuntu.

[Matchless]

Thunderbird! When installing Kubuntu, Thunderbird, Firefox and Synaptic are the first to be installed to replace the unpopular default installations.
The fact that it can run on windows and linux, has outstanding support and documentation and has the fabulous extention facility, makes it a winner all the way!! Why its still not on the Kubuntu install CD no-one knows.

[caryb]

I was wondering the same myself, I use Kubuntu & have to install it manually.


Cary

[toasterofirony]

Can I change my vote?

I've been playing about with KDE and ending up using KCal just to keep a track on appointments and the like; but when that went belly up, I went back to gnome and Evolution. Everything translated nicely, but no system tray icon still.

If I knew how, I'd make a plug in for it - Honestly, I don't know why there isn't one yet

[nekr0z]

I tell you why Thunderbird is not the default mail client for Kubuntu: because kmail is at all times better! Seriously.

The problem is, using kontact/kmail in GNOME is quite a pain in the ****, so in GNOME we need Thunderbird.

[graphic23]

I honestly think Evolution 2.8 is shaping up really nicely and I am really liking it. It uses less memory, has some nice new features, and does everything that I want it to do and more.

[wilbur.harvey]

I have used thunderbird since it was beta. It is nice, easy to use, and reliable. You can point all your machines clients to one set of files on a newtork share and sumultaneously access your email from multiple machines (some windows, some linux).
My company uses Microsoft products so I had to start using Evolution (about 4 months ago) to have access to the company calendar.
The antispan doesn't work as well in evolution, it is not as convient to use, I cannot have my different email providers in seperate folders, but most importantly it crashes and hangs fairly often. Sometimes I can go several dayes without a crash, so far it has crashed 4 times today. It often times hangs my complete gui and I have to ssh into the machine and do a pkill -U username to get my machine back. In the past every time I tried evolution I quite because it was so unstable, it seems that they haven't made much progress as far as stability goes. If I didn't have to use it for work, I would definitly NOT use it.

[jimmygoon]

If I could change my vote... I like Evolution a lot better now and i'm not even using the newest version (I'm still in dapper... I might dual boot edgy once knot2 comes out)

[ivoks]

I've used evolution and thunderbird quite a lot. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. With the time, thunderbird got a lot slower, and evolution got a lot quicker.

At some point evolution got quicker than thunderbird. But that wasn't enough for me to switch back to evolution. One serious bug made me totaly forget thunderbird and never touch it again - it doesn't save attachments right. This happens in 1 of 100 attachments, but it's annoying.

Finaly, I don't use neither of those two, but sylpheed-clas-gtk2. Still, I miss some nice features from Evolution and I'm thinking to get back to it.

(i didn't vote)