Re: [Evolution] Evolution is dying

[Bart <montana_evolution_user hardinmt us>]

On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 03:21 +0100, refdoc gmx net wrote:
> These kind of response is pretty crap. 
>
> Q. I use program A on distro B and have problem X.
> A. Throw your setup into the bin, everyone knows that distro B is
> useless.
>
> The answer is not only unhelpful as it does not suggest any
> alternatives nor gives actual reason or evidence to support such
> drastic action, but it is also manifestly wrong in this particular
> situation. 
>
> OP, I have a problem like yours dt a very flaky mail server (Microsoft
> provided) which occasionally and without good reason locks me out with
> an erroneous message that my password is wrong. Evo will then start
> asking for passwords. I found the solution to be to cut Evo out of the
> mail collecting business. I use getmail and offlineimap instead for
> the mail collection and use Evo simply as a GUI for mail writing,
> reading and administering. Both mentioned programme will simply error
> out when the remote mail server flakes, but not go into a tail spin re
> wrong passwords like Evo.
>
> To check if your problem is similar to mine you would indeed need some
> log reading.or you could simply try it out. Less disruptive than
> changing a distro for spurious reasons
>
> Peter
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With apologies to the regulars on this list...

I've been on this list for several years now.  The observation I've made
is that running evolution on ubuntu is problematic.  I seems like that's
the distro that has the greatest of quirks.  Now, I can't believe that
everyone using ubuntu is somehow less intelligent or computer savy than
the rest of us, but....

Using evolution on Fedora seems to be fine.
Using evolution on openSUSE seems to be fine.
Using evolution on Arch seems to be fine although Arch is not for the
novice.
You want to use Debian, use Debian, not a fork that includes spyware
(see Richard Stallman on ubuntu)

So, I'm sorry, I don't think his response was pretty crap (your words).

What's not good is top posting and using HTML on a tech list!

Bart