On May 18, 2010, at 05:43 PM, Martin Owens wrote: >I use evolution for my email, calendar and contacts.... and I try and >teach people how to use it. It's got a pretty bad design on the desktop. >A facsimile of Microsoft's Outlook with a non-standard backend data >store which is not useful to more integration and further development >beyond the limited APIs we got. I can't tell you how many times I've threatened (and started :) to write a an imap-aware mail reader that didn't suck. It's a huge undertaking. Personally these days I find that Claws is the least frustrating MUA and has many rather nice features. It's *only* an MUA, which I consider a good thing. Integration with calendars, address books, etc. should happen via operating system provided APIs. OS X gets this right IMHO (and Mail.app is my next favorite MUA). >I'm all for replacing evolution data store and the evolution UI, but I >fear what will happen is that we will be told to use the internet >(because everything is online right) and we won't be able to have our >data on our machines any more. I hope not. I'm not personally a fan of gmail, nor of storing my email in the cloud. I want it local and I want a traditional application to read it. I'm willing to admit I'm a dinosaur in this regard. ;) >Of course if we do go about replacing Evolution, it's going to be an >awful lot of work. I know of people who would like to replace the >backend with couchdb, perhaps that's a place to start. I'd also mention >KDE's Akonadi services but they suffer much the same problems IMO. > >Then there is the problem that no one's figured out how to do >incremental backups of monolithic databases so my current email database >eats through my hard drive space every time I perform a backup. Maildir backed IMAP access is the only way to go. -Barry
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