Evolution Shock

[laura_seabrook]

After I discovered (by accident) that there was a Windows version of Evolution (which normally runs under Linux), I installed a copy and tried it out.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that it had two features that Thunderbird lacks, and that I sorely missed since migrating from The Bat!:

• Categories
  You can clump contacts together by one or more categories; and
• Outgoing Filters
  You can do things to not just incoming messages, but outgoing ones as well!

Thunderbird is only as good as the extensions one adds to it, and I have found it extremely annoying that the address book is pretty basic, and that I can't sort my outgoing e-m,ails where I want automatically. Mind you, that said, I probably wont swap over to Evolution, because unlike Thunderbird, there's no or little documentation and/or support.

I'd be very happy if someone created add-ons for the above. The only other thing I really miss from The Bat! is proper templates with "macros" (where one can substitute variables and text) that you could use in filters and so on.

But, Thunderbird plods on. I just don't understand what the problem is.

Comments

[sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

I converted to Thunderbird long ago, and it was awesome. But you're right, it's sort of been developing slowly at best.