What’s the big difference, I have always used Thunderbird in windows. But I have always seen Evolution installed on linux Distros is there a reason for this? Is one better than the other? or does it really matter?
Evolution is the standard with Gnome desktops usually. I believe Evolution is an official Gnome app.
Arukas wrote:
> What’s the big difference, I have always used Thunderbird in windows.
> But I have always seen Evolution installed on linux Distros is there a
> reason for this? Is one better than the other? or does it really
> matter?
>
>
Stability wise, Thunderbird is more stable. Evolution works
better than it used to, but still crashes and hangs up a lot.
If you need a client that HAS to connect to an Exchange server,
then Evolution is your ONLY choice… but even so, I haven’t
seen Evolution work that way with any version later than
the one that came with openSUSE 10.2.
Evolution is very Outlook-ish.
Thunderbird does well with mail and newsgroups… but
doesn’t have a good integrated calendar (see the
Lightning add on for that).
Exchange? I only use pop servers.
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Thunderbird is just fine if you work with standard Internet protocol servers. It’s simpler than Evolution and probably more reliable for that. And it has a host of add-ons if you want frills.
evolution also is a lot bigger size wise.