is Evolution ready for prime time?

Is anyone using Evolution in a business environment? Last
time I tested it, it 
was pretty raw and buggy, which was years ago. Would you
trust it as an 
Outlook replacment, in a real production environment where
things have to 
work right?
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On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 10:41 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Is anyone using Evolution in a business environment?
Last time I tested it, it 
> was pretty raw and buggy, which was years ago. Would
you trust it as an 
> Outlook replacment, in a real production environment
where things have to 
> work right?

I do, I use it at work. I'm the only person I know that does
in my
building though.

I trust it as an Outlook replacement, it's just as buggy as
Outlook can
be anyway. It's bloated. If you have less than 1GB of RAM,
don't bother.
And I have a ticket right now open because I managed to
crash it by
creating a task with a weird url it in. I also have to
restart it every
4 or 5 days because it will really slow down my machine. I
don't like
how you have to "expunge" folders to have things
you delete actually be
deleted.

But there are cool things about it now (ver 2.8). For
example, you can
subscribe to google calendar and then sync it to your palm
through
Evolution (and sync everything else). You can create tasks
from emails
with it. The search feature is the best (besides grep). When
you reply
to a list, it actually puts the list address in the To:
(unlike
thunderbird). There are too many things to list, but those
are a few I
like. 

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> Is anyone using Evolution in a business environment?
Last time I tested it, it
> was pretty raw and buggy, which was years ago. Would
you trust it as an
> Outlook replacment, in a real production environment
where things have to
> work right?

Things have changed dramatically in most aspects of Linux in
the last
year... Evolution included   I've used
it a fair bit... and
personally, I don't like it.  Too heavy - needs loads of RAM
etc., and
an interface that is almost as annoying as Outlook :-P

But.. of you like Outlook, then I'd say go for it.  It does
the job as
a multi function tool, and is mostly familiar to those who
are used to
Outlook.

I find it pretty - no make it very - stable.  I use the SUSE
build
(using SUSE 10.2) and don't have any real issues (only
personal
dislike for it).

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It wasn't stable for me, and I was only using it for basic
mail reading.  It also slowed 
my system to a crawl (fedora FC5, 1G ram, P4)


m.

Carla Schroder wrote:
> Is anyone using Evolution in a business environment?
Last time I tested it, it 
> was pretty raw and buggy, which was years ago. Would
you trust it as an 
> Outlook replacment, in a real production environment
where things have to 
> work right?
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Carla Schroder wrote:
> Is anyone using Evolution in a business environment?
Last time I tested
> it, it
> was pretty raw and buggy, which was years ago. Would
you trust it as an
> Outlook replacment, in a real production environment
where things have to
> work right?

I used Evolution for 2.5 years until my company was acquired
by a much
larger company.  For most of that time, I was the only
person not forced
to use Windows and therefore was the only person not using
Outlook.

For the most part Evolution worked well but would
occasionally go through
periods where new and somewhat serious bugs would crop up. 
I run Fedora
and they tend to stay near the bleeding edge.

The one annoyance I didn't like was that I had to render
email in their
HTML form or else it wouldn't handle those lovely calendar
entry
attachments.  The integration with the calendar stuff is
pretty nice in
evolution.

Since Jan 1, I've been using Thunderbird since that is what
the new
company supports.  I have to send out my weekly status
report in HTML and
thunderbird will not let me do that on a per message basis. 
I have to go
into account settings, set my compose preferences to HTML,
send the email,
and then put it back to plain text.

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Clayton wrote:
> Things have changed dramatically in most aspects of
Linux in the last
> year... Evolution included   I've used
it a fair bit... and
> personally, I don't like it.  Too heavy - needs loads
of RAM etc., and
> an interface that is almost as annoying as Outlook :-P

Well if you work at a company that uses Exchange and they
will not turn on
IMAP or POP, your options are seriously limited.  IMHO,
evolution is the
better alternative a) running Windows b) running Outlook in
cxoffic or c)
using the horrid web interface to outlook.

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Kathryn Hogg writes:
> Since Jan 1, I've been using Thunderbird since that is
what the new
> company supports.  I have to send out my weekly status
report in HTML and
> thunderbird will not let me do that on a per message
basis.  I have to go
> into account settings, set my compose preferences to
HTML, send the email,
> and then put it back to plain text.

I don't use T'bird, but in Mozilla Mail (now part of
Seamonkey), if you
shift-clicked on the Reply or Compose button, you got a
compose window
with the opposite of your normal HTML compose preference.
There was
also a place to change the send status for individual
messages (so
you could send as text even if you'd composed in html).
T'bird
doesn't offer either of those?

I just checked on my husband's copy (I don't have T'bird set
up
here) and shift-click works (shift-click on Reply brought up
an
HTML compose window when his usual pref is Plain), so that
should
solve your problem.  I don't see the send format in the
Options menu
of the compose window, which is where I'd expect it, so
maybe they
removed that from T'bird.

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Akkana Peck wrote:
> I don't use T'bird, but in Mozilla Mail (now part of
Seamonkey), if you
> shift-clicked on the Reply or Compose button, you got a
compose window
> with the opposite of your normal HTML compose
preference. There was
> also a place to change the send status for individual
messages (so
> you could send as text even if you'd composed in html).
T'bird
> doesn't offer either of those?

It appears that T-bird supports this but of course there is
no intuitive
way of knowing that shift-clicking on Reply does this.  I
still prefer
Evolutions Format->HTML in its Compose window.

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On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 14:36 -0600, Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> Well if you work at a company that uses Exchange and
they will not turn on
> IMAP or POP, your options are seriously limited.  IMHO,
evolution is the
> better alternative a) running Windows b) running
Outlook in cxoffic or c)
> using the horrid web interface to outlook.

I use Evolution at work for that reason -- access to the
Exchange server
(for calendaring as well as e-mail).  I agree that Evolution
beats the
alternatives listed above, but every day I'm frustrated by a
handful of
bugs, like when it quietly stops fetching (or displaying?)
new mail, or
when I want to move a message to a different folder while a
window
displaying that message is open (in version 2.8.1, it
switches the
message displayed in that window to some other message in
the current
folder; in some previous versions, that message window would
go blank).

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