Claws-Email on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/claws-email/ Recent content in Claws-Email on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:01:34 +0000 Testing Email Clients https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2010/11/22/testing-email-clients/ Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:01:34 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2010/11/22/testing-email-clients/ <p>Ever since late Fedora 12 or, for sure, Fedora 13, <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/">Evolution</a> has been annoying me.  I don’t know if it’s linked or coincidental, but it appears to have started getting buggy after I noticed it was using couchdb, a database that a lot of database people in the Linux world are getting all excited about.  Evolution is the Linux equivalent to Microsoft Office Outlook.  I switched to it a few years ago so that I could have tasks, email, and calenders in one spot.  In theory, it’s perfect - it syncs with Hotmail, Gmail, and Google Calendar.  I have all my todo items in there out to April of next year.  It supports GPG signing and encryption via integration with Gnome’s Seahorse keyring.  In practice, it has started taking forever to start a new email or enter a new task.  I click the button and then have to wait for a long time until the dialog pops up; if it pops up.  A lot of the time doing this causes the program to crash.  I’ve filed a bug via the auto-bug-filing program in Fedora.  There’s also a bug that doesn’t bother me as much where it keeps asking me to supply the password for my Hotmail account and not accepting it until the next time I restart the program.  So I decided that I’d wait and see if things improved with Gnome 2.32, included in Fedora 14.</p>

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