Re: The future of gnome-pim - and Balsa, too?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

>>>>>With Evolution 1.0 soon to be realeased, I'm a bit concerned about the
>>>>>future of other GNOME applications that implement some of its
>>>>>functionality, mainly the Calender and Address Book, but to a certain
>>>>>extent Balsa, too.
>>>>First,  I am a very happy Evolution user.  Evolution FINALLY plugs a
>>>>HUGE hole in the Linux application suite,  the calendering etc...
>>>>actually can interact with other e-mail platforms (cough, Outlook,
>>>>cough).
>>>Balsa start nearly in one second.
>>>Evolution need a few minutes (all tested flavour).
>>Not quite a few minutes,  but certainly longer than Balsa.  But this is
>>Linux,  I only start it once a day.
>>>Evoltion doesn't like procmail.
>>Neither do most users,  except old UNIX mavens.  I am an old UNIX maven,
>>and agree that procmail is great,  but it doesn't matter one bit,
>>***users*** are never going to use it.  Never,  never, never.  It isn't
>>even worth mentioning to them.
>Dead wrong. Lot's of users (and we are talking about lots of more users 
>here than evolution will have for quite some time) use procmail without
>knowing they do so. It is very widely used as a local delivery agent in
>institutions, inc. with users getting a set of predefined filters with
>their account. 

That is the same as saying everyone who flies on an air-liner is a
pilot.  Those users are not using procmail, it is being used on there
behalf,  the vast majority of users never know it is there any more then
they directly interact with sendmail.