On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 22:03 -0500, John Mellor wrote:
I moved from fetchmail to Evolution, and initially thought it was
brilliant. The only initial issues that I faced were in trying to
configure undocumented connectivity to Rogers (altered Yahoo) and
Google
upstream mail services. Eventually, somebody published the correct
incantations, like using SSMTP ports but not the protocol, and all
was
good for quite some time. However, the Evolution ivory tower
released a
couple of bad versions that corrupted their internal db and I lost a
lot
of mail as a result. IMHO, I have no idea why someone thought a db
was
a good idea in an email client, but maybe they came from a Microsoft
background and email using the Jet db. Anyway, I was never able to
correct the problem, as there are no recovery tools, the devs are
uncommunicative, and I experienced very poor support from their user
group. While I've done it very long ago, I have better things to
develop than debugging what is supposed to be a well-designed
client.
Maybe I only work on well-designed code, since I think that the
coding
complexity of Evolution is a bunch of accidents waiting to happen.
I'm sorry you had that experience, but I have to assume that this
happened quite some time ago. The current maintainer is in fact
extremely communicative and anxious to resolve problems.
I agree that the code base of Evolution is large, at least in part
because it's not just a mail client, and that even as an MUA it has to
deal with Exchange (it's the go-to MUA for Exchange users on Linux).
Personally, I only ever use IMAP and don't particularly care about the
non-mail aspects, so it works for me.
poc