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Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person using Evolution. For the most part it just stays out of my way for what I use it for[1] and it has great support for all the online services I use. It seems to never come up in online discussions of e-mail or calendar software though, unless I bring it up myself.

1: Just e-mail, contacts, and calendar. It has support for "tasks" and "memos" as well, but I haven't used those.

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Thanks for the suggestion!

I have seen evolution mentioned occassionaly, but I haven't tried to run it in many years.

In addition to email and calendars, it also seems to support RSS feeds. With these 3 it covers everything i use thunderbird for.

Thunderbird has bugs (some dating back decades) such as failing to update IMAP folders until they're clicked, and the calendar occassionaly "forgets" reminders after they're snoozed, until thunderbird is restarted. Filing and commenting in the bug tracker has never seemed to help.

After ~25 years of cursing (while also being thankful for) thunderbiurd, if evolution can "just work" for email, calendars and RSS, it might be time to switch...

IIRC it's RSS reader features are fairly minimal; I switched to converting rss to e-mails and injecting them into a folder on my IMAP server; then any e-mail client I uses handles thinks like "marking as read"

Too late to edit but replying:

I just tried out the RSS reader. It somewhat recently transitioned from a plugin to builtin. The version I was using (3.50.3) had a bug that caused URLs in RSS feeds to be decoded as quoted-printable which mangled any url that had "=<hexdigit><hexdigit>" (i.e. most of the URLs in the feeds I tried). It's marked as fixed in 3.50.4, which I'm compiling now.

Can only agree; had to sadly leave Thunderbird due to duplicated events, reminders for events already dismissed, weird errors and these Windows 95-style dialogs.

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