I am keeping two email clients on my desktop. I would rather use GNOME's default email application, Evolution Mail, but it has too many components, parts that crash, parts that has bugs, lots of things that can go wrong (and it does). So I keep Thunderbird as back up. I wonder how many users also do the same thing.
I know what's on your mind. Why not choose one? Why not just choose Thunderbird and ditch Evolution Mail? From the engineering point of view, something that's so dependent on too many component parts that could break isn't wise. It's inviting disaster. It's like driving without a spare tire. It just makes sense to me.
I don't do this with say my productivity suite or my music player application. I guess my correspondence is too important to be delayed. And if all else fails then I open a tab in my browser and use web mail. I avoid web mail with all its distractions, security and privacy issues.
I know what's on your mind. Why not choose one? Why not just choose Thunderbird and ditch Evolution Mail? From the engineering point of view, something that's so dependent on too many component parts that could break isn't wise. It's inviting disaster. It's like driving without a spare tire. It just makes sense to me.
I don't do this with say my productivity suite or my music player application. I guess my correspondence is too important to be delayed. And if all else fails then I open a tab in my browser and use web mail. I avoid web mail with all its distractions, security and privacy issues.
P.S. Arch released a patch for evolution-server and evolution mail today. My Google account is once again connecting flawlessly.
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