Evolution vs Thunderbird

[measekite]

A couple of years ago I felt Thunderbird was superior to evolution. There
has not been very much innovation with Thunderbird lately.

Does anyone know how the latest versions of Evolution and Thunderbird
compare with each other. If you think one is substantially better than
the other please state your reasons.

[Mike Easter]

Post by measekite
A couple of years ago I felt Thunderbird was superior to evolution.
There has not been very much innovation with Thunderbird lately.
Does anyone know how the latest versions of Evolution and Thunderbird
compare with each other. If you think one is substantially better than
the other please state your reasons.

Evolution isn't actually the same thing as vanilla Tbird.

Evolution is a Gnome PIM for calendar and workgroup information handling,
like MS Outlook, and it integrates with servers such as MS Exchange &
Novell Groupwise and can do IM, gpg encrypting, and use SA spamassassin
for spam control. In addition to mail/news/addressbook.

Vanilla Tbird needs extensions and such to add Enigmail for gpg, Lightning
for calendaring, and isn't as tightly integrated with SA. It can't
integrate with MS Exchange or N Groupwise. Tbird has much more
crossplatform support than Evolution.

Neither of them can natively handle news binaries in terms of combining or
ydecoding.

Disclaimer: I don't use either of them on a daily basis, I just tinker.

[Ian Pawson]

Post by measekite
A couple of years ago I felt Thunderbird was superior to evolution. There
has not been very much innovation with Thunderbird lately.
Does anyone know how the latest versions of Evolution and Thunderbird
compare with each other. If you think one is substantially better than
the other please state your reasons.

Newsgroup reading (text) in Evolution is tragic

[Mike Easter]

Ian Pawson wrote:
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125)

Post by Ian Pawson

Post by measekite
Does anyone know how the latest versions of Evolution and Thunderbird
compare with each other. If you think one is substantially better than
the other please state your reasons.

Newsgroup reading (text) in Evolution is tragic

How do you mean, exactly? In what way is it different? Are you talking
about a difference in the way Tbird reformats citations compared to
Evolution? Or something else?

[Moog]

Post by Mike Easter
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125)

Post by Ian Pawson

Post by measekite
Does anyone know how the latest versions of Evolution and Thunderbird
compare with each other. If you think one is substantially better than
the other please state your reasons.

Newsgroup reading (text) in Evolution is tragic

How do you mean, exactly? In what way is it different? Are you talking
about a difference in the way Tbird reformats citations compared to
Evolution? Or something else?

Evolution 2.24.2 works perfectly in nntp here. I don't quite
understand how it can be described as "tragic" as it does everything
Thunderbird does yet handles groups in a far more intuitive way IMHO.

[Mike Easter]

Post by Mike Easter
Mike Easter

Post by Mike Easter
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125)

Post by Ian Pawson
Newsgroup reading (text) in Evolution is tragic

How do you mean, exactly?

Evolution 2.24.2 works perfectly in nntp here. I don't quite
understand how it can be described as "tragic" as it does everything
Thunderbird does yet handles groups in a far more intuitive way IMHO.

On the negative side, for sake of discussion...

Evolution is fundamentally a PIM integrated mailagent. Its approach to
news is to treat a newsserver like a mailserver, even calling it one, and
it lacks some important newsagent like features, such as configuring to
get the last xxx headers.

If you access a busy newsgroup on a server with a lot of retention, the
first thing that default Evolution does is to download say a million
headers and then try to process them.

That's not much of a newsreader function.

[A. Ben Hmeda]

Post by measekite
A couple of years ago I felt Thunderbird was superior to evolution. There
has not been very much innovation with Thunderbird lately.
Does anyone know how the latest versions of Evolution and Thunderbird
compare with each other. If you think one is substantially better than
the other please state your reasons

My only beef with Thunderbird is that sometimes messages in certain news
threads are doubled which is extremely annoying to me. I attempted
Evolution, several years ago, (not much help to you), I had an issue
with the way it handled expanding/collapsing threads, perhaps I'm just
used to the Mozilla way...

As e-mail clients, it is just a matter of preference because both do an
excellent job but Thunderbird works on Windows too, if that matters to
you. I would try both, if I were you.

[Yousuf Khan]

Post by measekite
A couple of years ago I felt Thunderbird was superior to evolution. There
has not been very much innovation with Thunderbird lately.
Does anyone know how the latest versions of Evolution and Thunderbird
compare with each other. If you think one is substantially better than
the other please state your reasons.

I'm not an Evolution user, nor am I an Outlook Express user in Windows.
I'm basically using Tbird because it's available to both platforms,
virtually identically.

Yousuf Khan