Evolution Mail Client To See Significant Changes

Evolution, the e-mail client that's part of the GNOME desktop, will be seeing many significant changes during the GNOME 3.4 development cycle. Matthew Barnes has blogged about some of the changes that can be expected from the Evolution 3.4 release next March when GNOME 3.4 is to be released.

Among the new features to be expected from Evolution 3.4 is porting Evolution's email rendering to WebKit/GTK+ rather than the old GtkHtml, automated account setup support, porting the reset of the GConf keys to GSettings, a new Microsoft Exchange back-end, a new back-end for Kolab Groupware, and saner account storage. There's also going to be a new D-Bus service for email.

These changes should be nice for anyone using GNOME's Evolution e-mail client rather than Mozilla Thunderbird or the other open-source alternatives.

to long ......... why would they bother keeping this thing around when there is a much better alternative, like claws mail and Thunderbird

[Wayne]

Wish they'd split out the calendar, tasks and memo functions. Everyone else abandoned the monolithic mail client ages ago!

with the changes i dunno if its gonna encourage me to use it instead of Thunderbird.

[DBelton]

I haven't used Evolution in eons myself. Just never has been something I like using, and installs way too much junk.

I have gotten to where I make sure to deselect Evolution and Empathy from every fresh install and install Thunderbird instead.

[Wayne]

I'm just trying to get all the fonts in TB the way they display in Evolution. It really is a pain! Some mails (different encodings) are ginourmous, while others are almost too small to read! In Evolution every incoming mail is displayed in Bitsream Vera Sans 9 no matter what the encoding! I've tried every font setting in TB and still can't get them all to look right! That's probably the only good thing about Evolution!

[DBelton]

Have you tried specifying a global UI font in your userChrome.css file?

Try looking over this article and see if it helps..

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pane_and_menu_fonts

also more information is here as well

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Font_settings_in_Thunderbird

[Wayne]

Originally Posted by DBelton

Have you tried specifying a global UI font in your userChrome.css file?

Try looking over this article and see if it helps..

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pane_and_menu_fonts

also more information is here as well

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Font_settings_in_Thunderbird

Thanks, will look it over later. It's Tuesday, it's my day off, it's sunny outside and it's almost time for lunch and a beer

[Boricua]

Originally Posted by Wayne

Wish they'd split out the calendar, tasks and memo functions. Everyone else abandoned the monolithic mail client ages ago!

Hi Wayne:

Evolution's integration of functions is precisely what makes it my email client of choice. I'm an attorney, so having everything at hand without need for opening other programs probed to be an advantage for me. I have tried Claws, Balsa, Thunderbird, and always returned to Evolution.

[nonamedotc]

I am a big fan of thunderbird at the moment, but if evolution, with the said improvements becomes as good as thunderbird, I will start using for one big reason - integration with the GNOME calendar but unable to use now because of how 'wonderful' evolution is.