[H-GEN] Evolution or Thunderbird or what?

[Greg Black]

On 2006-11-17, I wrote:

> I'm aware of Evolution and Thunderbird and imagine that one of
> them is probably the way to go, but I'm happy to entertain other
> possibilities.  What we need is something that runs with a
> modern GUI look and feel, that's easy to use, that does both
> imap and imaps, that has a good reputation for stability, that
> plays nicely with gnome, and that provides some usable address
> book capability (for both email addresses and street addresses
> and phone numbers).
> 
> I'd like to hear from people who have relevant experience with
> any such MUA, both good and bad, as a user or a sysadmin.

I'd like to thank all the people who replied to me via email and
IRC.  Your thoughts were very helpful.

For the benefit of the curious, while there were some votes for
Evolution, there were a lot against it (bugs and instability
were both cited).  There was strong support for Thunderbird and
no negatives.  There were single mentions of a couple of obscure
and inappropriate alternatives.  I'll set up a Thunderbird trial
and see how that goes.

Cheers, Greg