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Evolution 1.5 has Been Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-download dept.

SirPrize writes "As announced here, Evolution 1.5 is now available for download (obligatory screenshots, for those who want to click and see)" Congrats to all the developers responsible for this gigantic undertaking.

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  1. Developer release? by Delirium+Tremens · · Score: 3, Informative
    From the announcement:

    The main purpose of this release is, of course, to gather as much testing as possible from users.

    So is Evolution 1.5 a development release? Are they following the same numbering scheme as the Linux kernel? So does that mean that if I am not in a testing mood, I should rather wait for 1.6?

    1. Re:Developer release? by irix · · Score: 4, Informative

      So is Evolution 1.5 a development release? Are they following the same numbering scheme as the Linux kernel?

      Yes and yes.

      If you don't want to be testing 1.5 then you should be waiting for a stable 2.0. Of course, if you can, testing 1.5 is a good thing.

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  2. What's the big excitement? by milgr · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is a development release. According to evolution's planned milestones, the stable 1.6 release will be out in March.

    Like the kernel, the odd dot releases are development.

    That said, I choose to use evolution 1.4 for most of my email needs.

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  3. This is a testing release by irix · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is one of the Evolution testing releases that go along with Gnome 2.5. The goal is a stable Evolution 2.0 and Gnome 2.6 later in the spring. Check out he roadmap.

    So by all means, pick up 1.5 if you want to help with bug fixing, but this is not a "stable" release.

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  4. Evolution 1.5 Screens by breman · · Score: 3, Informative

    calenders
    mail
    tasks

  5. Re:As an Evolution user for about a year... by Jellybob · · Score: 3, Informative
    it lacks the same kind of integration that Outlook/Exchange offer medium and large corporations wanting to standardize on an e-mail, calendar and messaging suite can.

    *cough* connector *cough*
  6. Kernel numbering! it's a devel release! by luge · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since the article makes this totally,totally unclear, this is not a stable release. It's a totally devel, in many ways broken, release. Could eat your mail, pets, family, etc. So only download/install if you are brave. Or stupid. Or something. The stable release will go out with GNOME 2.6 in the spring, or at least that is the current plan. Hope that clarifies...

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  7. Re:As an Evolution user for about a year... by damiangerous · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try using MultiSync with the SynCE plugin.

  8. Yes by Synn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Email their support and they'll send you a 30 day trial key.

    I personally use it to connect to our Exchange 2003 server and it works quite well. Your company's Exchange server will need OWA support enabled however.

  9. I agree by crimguy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thunderbird has many things going for it as a pure email/nntp app that Evolution doesn't (yet).
    1) Spam controls need to be built into Evolution.
    2) Customizable icons. Evolution's UI is too big and wastes desktop space. It also looks a bit too Gnome 1.4 . . .
    3) Threaded messages don't work particularly well.
    4) Pilot syncing is hit or miss for most people (I've gotten it working in the past, but not since 1.2).
    5) IMAP controls are a bit weird. Either you empty your trash upon exit, or messages marked for deletion stay that way until you do so. Thunderbird is more intuitive, allowing the DEL key to move messages to the Trash folder.
    6) Consistency on each platform. It's nice having the same mail app on Windows, Mac linux and PC linux.

    The big plus for Evolution is the groupware features, which I never use. It has a nice calendar as well. Better integration with the Gnome desktop would be nice.

  10. Re:Built-in spam filtering? by FattMattP · · Score: 4, Informative
    Run Spamassassin as a daemon (ie spamd) for speed and use Evolution's builtin filtering tool to define a pipe to shell command filter (ie spamc -c) with the rule being if does not return 0, either move to your spam folder or just delete it. Make sure bayesian filtering is enabled in spamassassin, do some training via sa-learn, add you will have great spam filtering with very low overhead.
    They need something intergrated into the application so that they can click a "spam" or "not spam" button and/or change spam settings from within Evolution. See Mozilla Mail to see what I am talking about. Your solution still requires interacting with the shell (something these users don't know how to do) to change settings or train the bayesian filter. Right now I already have spamassassin checking mail on the server side.
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