[ILUG] Evolution

[Nick Murtagh]

On Friday 30 November 2001 16:16, you wrote:
> I decided I'd have a look at the Evolution release candidate so downloaded
> it and tried to install it. A brief perusal of the ~30 things it wants
> before it'll install brought that experiment to a sad end :-(

What you really need to do is install all the ximian stuff. 

I wouldn't recommend using it with Mandrake 8.1 though. In fact
there isn't a version of ximian out yet for that. So I installed
the version for Mandrake 8.0, which I assumed would be largely
compatible. Until I tried to send an email, which causes Evolution
to segfault. It works grand at receiving email though :)

Also, the executive summary thing doesn't really work behind a 
proxy, and there's no way to tell it to use one that I could see.

I switched to kmail, which seems to be roughly twice as fast at
doing almost everything. It's now (well since I last used it)
got the "Create filter based on email" thingy that I first saw
in Evolution. The only thing it's missing is the virtual folders
which are fairly useless anyway.

I'm considering going back to mutt :)

Nick