[Evolution] Evo usable as daily/regular mail app?

[Chris Bailey <chrisb wego com>]

I've been following Evolution for a few releases now, and have tried it 
since maybe four releases ago.  .8 seems pretty close.  I realize there 
are disclaimers on the Ximian site and so forth about Evolution not 
being released yet, and still buggy, blah blah blah.

What I'm wondering is how people feel about using it as their normal 
mail reader?  Evolution is very appealing to me (ok, truth be told, I 
used to be an Outlook user on Windows).  Mozilla is too slow, and annoys 
me with how it marks messages read just because their subject line gets 
selected.  It also has some bugs, etc.  I've looked at Balsa, gmail, and 
Pronto, but each have a couple things that seem to make me resist 
switching to those; plus I just think Evo is cool.

So, what do people think?  My setup would be using POP, and I'd want to 
make decent use of filters, multiple mail folders (and nested folders), 
be able to read (and sometimes write) HTML mail, and have it be pretty 
quick, even with hundres or thousands of emails in the various folders.

Is it reasonable to use the CVS version for daily use, or are the 
snapshots more stable?  I'm fine with building it from CVS.  If people 
do think it's good to use, what precautions should I take?  e.g. cron 
job to do a backup of the evolution folder on a nightly basis (or 
more?).  How about the vfolder stuff, is that pretty stable now?

I know this could raise some real debate, etc., and that the list is 
likely biased towards the positive side.  But, I really just want to get 
people's general feeling (and hopefully it's a "yes - use it").


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Chris Bailey            chrisb wego com
Wego Systems            http://www.wego.com