Comments on: Why I’ve switched from Thunderbird to Evolution

By: Ten open source projects I learned to love in 2008 |

Ten open source projects I learned to love in 2008 | — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:17:07 +0000

[...] Evolution actually suprised me quite a bit at how easy it was to use and at the same time incredibly resourceful for my emails, calendar, and contacts management. [...]

By: Boycott Novell » IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 24th, 2008 - Part 2

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:48:10 +0000

[...] wrong direction? Why I’ve switched from Thunderbird to Evolution < http://opencomputer.net/2008/11/23/why-ive-swi…; [...]

By: Organizing Tasks in Linux |

Organizing Tasks in Linux | — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:40:09 +0000

[...] that would allow me to have a 2-way sync between my desktop and RememberTheMilk. As I’ve mentioned before, Evolution does only 1-way sync to my favorite task management web [...]

By: Danilo

Danilo — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:54:22 +0000

@adriantry yup, contact is syncing pretty well with me. Excellent idea for the eeepc! I have one but haven’t used it for a couple of months so I had forgotten about this possibility too.

By: chvnx

chvnx — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:51:58 +0000

I recently switched from Evolution to Thunderbird because Evolution would not work with my GoDaddy address and smtp server for some odd reason, and since that is my primary address it was rather important!

By: Christian Peper

Christian Peper — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:47:52 +0000

Good to know Gmail is now supported.
In the past, I’ve played with evolution and successfully hooked it into Groupwise, Exchange and IMAP servers. Even the Outlook/Exchange Calendar function worked nicely. upon testing, events entered in the OWA (web) interface showed up fine in Evolution.

However, while Evolution integrated well with all the services I tested, the more I added, the more unstable it became. With Groupwise, it would crash often. Exchange sometimes mangled my calendars, duplicating apts due to some Time Zone thingy. With all my accounts (6) setup, it also crashed frequently when updating, to the point where I simply gave up.
I now use Thunderbird for everything but Exchange at work. And that’s only because my office won’t open up the IMAP interface and blocks traffic at those ports anyway.

By: aby

aby — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:28:09 +0000

Wow! I’m actually thinking of switching as well.

By: adriantry

adriantry — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:02:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I’ve been looking for a solution that allows me to sync my Gmail data with my eeepc so that I have my calendar, to do list and contacts available when I’m offline and need to make a phone call.

These days I’ve given up on PDAs and I’m using my eeepc instead. I’ll revise that decision once Android devices are available in Australia.

I’ve been having trouble finding something that will sync the google contacts dependably. I hadn’t thought of trying Evolution since I mainly use KDE, but I’ll have to give it a go.

Do you find that contact sync works reliably?

By: THD

THD — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:17:01 +0000

Plus, sending files through email is easy with “Send to…” options inside Gnome.

That works with Thunderbird as well.