Re: [orca-list] Evolution - Reading the contents of messages.

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

Evolution seems to handle large lists of messages such as Google's "all
mail" folder much more gracefully than Tbird. That said, the main
reason I use Evolution right now is because it works on my Odroid C2,
which has become my primary computer of late, but Tbird crashes out
before it ever starts. I do wish they would fix that, as it worked
through most of the month of March, up until some time around the
middle of last month. Still, Evolution is really fast, in most cases
beating out most other things I've tried, including Tbird and
Seamonkey. The only problems I'm having with it now are some silent
segfaults when closing certain messages, usually a small number of HTML
messages I believe, as well as at-spi not catching the first paragraph
of a small number of people's messages when they reply on a list, but I
think I have that one pinned down enough to send a debug.out to Joanie
off list in case this is somehow an Orca issue or could be traced
through Orca possibly, as I have been able to reproduce the problem
consistently with at least one person's messages, and I have another
person's messages that do the same when he doesn't use GPG to sign
them. I should have that by Monday. There are also some rather unusual
work -arounds that I've needed to perform, such as pressing control+end
to find the panel at the bottom of the message headers, pressing the up
arrow to get to the date header or the GPG header, and then tabbing
onto the body of the message and pressing control+home to get to the
top of it, which makes it a bit more involved to get to a message so
that I can read it, and then there's the compose editor, which needs a
ton of work, as longer messages with more than one or two short
paragraphs can be extremely slow to write and proofread. Also, I have
noticed that recent versions seem to have connection trouble after
about half an hour after starting, which has caused me to have to kill
Evolution and recover my message in order to send it. So for now, with
the current bugs in mind, Tbird and Seamonkey appear to be the best
mail applications currently available, but Evolution is definitely an
option that is steadily evolving into something that could overtake
everything as its current problems are fixed.

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