For those of you that keep track of this sort of thing, as of this morning, I have stopped using Evolution as my primary email client, and have switched to Thunderbird.
There is really only one reason. Evolution 1.4 is *way* too old for my tastes and all of the newer versions of Evolution available to me (2.0.3 and 2.1.1) are broken in some way (2.0.3 crashes when I get a mail that has an iCalendar meeting invite in it, and 2.1.1 just randomly crashes on certain messages. In BOTH version the Calendar is very flaky, at best). Maybe when 2.1.5 is installable on Debian (too many packages missing right now) I'll give it another shot.
Thunderbird isn't *better*, it just doesn't crash. And that's important. Evolution had a lot of well thought out (and a few not so well thought out) shortcut keys that made doing the things I do commonly a lot faster. Thunderbird seems to be seriously lacking in the shortcut keys department. I also really liked Evolution's use of GTKSpell so I could see which words were misspelled as I typed them. With Thunderbird, it's an extra step.
While I'm on the topic, I wish there were a good, simple, calendar solution for Linux.
Evolution's calendar doesn't work. And, even if it did, remote calendars are virtually unsupported.
kOrganizer supports remote calendars, but not reliably. And, since it doesn't bother to color code each of the different calendars being viewed, looking at it can be a little confusing.
Mozilla Calendar is what I use now… despite the fact that I hate it. It supports remote calendars, it supports color coding, and it supports multiple calendars. Those things are important. Event notification, however, sucks. The fact that it doesn't have an alarm daemon is terribly frustrating, and would be even more so if the event notification actually works. It's also really annoying to have *three* different ways to install it, each of them with their own problems and limitations.
Mediocre software doesn't make me happy. I'd even considering *paying* for something, if there were actually anything better available.
