Re: [Evolution] comparison to Thunderbird

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 09:54 +0100, Write Me wrote:
> Dear All
> I am a frustrated Thunderbird (Kubuntu) user who cannot get full access 
> to the printing options. I have tried a fix that was assertive and had 
> success for others but did not work for me.  I have been trying for over 
> a year.
> I have used other distros and always had the same problem.  Firefox 
> gives me full access to all the printing options and always has.

"Distro hopping" is a complete waste of time; it is the same
applications.

> So now I have had enough and wish to move away from Thunderbird.  

As should everyone.

> looked at KMail and Evolution.  Both give me full access to the printing 
> options, and Evolution is the better inteface. 

Yep.

>  But alas, alack I cannot 
> see how to make separate inboxes etc for each account.  I have five 
> e-mail accounts and wish that they retain their separate inbox, drafts, 
> Trash etc.

I assume you mean POP accounts?  If you are using IMAP you get separate
INBOXs.  With POP you don't really have "mailboxes" related the account
- all POP does is download mail to a local mailbox, hence only one (The
local INBOX, I assume).  But I have to admit I haven't used POP for
anything in a decade.  If your providers support IMAP you should switch.

> It is the transition to Linux that is held up by these anomalies. 
> Imagine in this sophisticated  Linux era not being able to chose which 
> quality of print you wish to do.  Silly really.

I'm not sure what you mean.  But I take this as a criticism of
Thunderbird - and in my book all criticisms of Thunderbird (aka
Thunderous turd) are automatically valid - so OK.

> Any help aor advise appreciated

I think the easy solution would be to create a folder for each account
and define a filter rule to route messages to that folder.  Honestly,
this is a feature not a bug (IMHO).