Re: [orca-list] Evolution Questions

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 07:26:32PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
 
> Evolution  seems to work ok with local folders and it did seem to work
> good with gmail; it was mainly my local IMAP server where it (I guess)
> was taking so long to do its thing but no speech, no progress, that
> really sucked because I had no idea what was going on.  

These problems could at least in part be due to slowness and bugs in
Evolution. Most comments that I have read about Evolution in other fora
suggest using Mutt, Thunderbird, Claws-mail, Gnus (for Emacs) or other
alternatives instead, unless you require compatibility with a Microsoft
Exchange server.