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Evolution Mail is unstable. Need a good mail program.

Asked by Jerryjseay

Years ago, I started to avoid any contact with Novell products and now I find that Evolution is NOT an Ubuntu product, but Novell. That in itself is a major problem in my experience. How they have managed to stay on the business stage is a mystery to me.

Is there another mail product from Ubuntu that will work with KARMIC? The KDE products seem to be much much better than Evolution.

Jerry

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#1

yes !!! mozilla thunderbird .... you can get from the software center under internet ...... and is supported by most isp `s ..

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Soul-Sing (soulzing) said : 		#2

Novell indeed, but evolution is integrated within the ubuntu-desktop. When you remove evolution completely you remove (partly) the ubuntu-desktop. and your left with a broken system. you could remove evolution but always let evolution-data-server(-common) untouched.
as greg toler said thunderbird rawks!

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#3

dont try to remove evolution go to system-prefereneces-main menu -internet == and un- check evolution... that way it is there but you won`t see it in the menu.. i`ve done several things that way on mine.....

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Isabell Long (issyl0) said : 		#4

I suggest Thunderbird if you want a good mail client. :)

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Don't remove evolution simply don't use it and install Thunderbird (my default on Ubuntu) then to get Thunderbird as default mail client edit you preferences from menu System→Preferences→Preferred application set the mail app string to

/usr/bin/thunderbird "%s"

Hth

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Jerryjseay (jjseay) said : 		#6

Thanks for the recommendation to install Thunderbird. I did and it solved the instability problem.

Thanks,

PS: What contact and or address book would you recommend to go with Thunderbird? I will be using the email address book in Thunderbird, a more complete address book available to the word processor and note editor is desired.

Jerry

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David (snookdog69) said : 		#7

Recommendation for thunderbird accepted. Used evolution very succesfully on Jaunty. Under Karmic it just doesn't work well at all. Suffers from amnesia when it comes to date sorting mail and pref's never get retained. Constantly asks for passwords even though it asks me if i want to save them and i say yes. Shame really, I liked evolution.

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Jerryjseay (jjseay) said : 		#8

I installed Thunderbird and corrected the instability problem quickly. In an effort to move data into export files I found that Evolution did not perform at all. I loaded Evolution in search engine of the Synaptic Software Engine and started loading GNOME libs that mentioned Evolution bindings, utilities, and parsing algorithms. Evolution began to function but still has some issues. The Novell boys failed to complete the dependences list when they put the Karmic distro together. I will continue to hunt for all of the dependences that I can find, but will still use Thunderbird as the mail client.

Jerry