Evolution versus Kmail. Was: First thoughts on KDE4.2...

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 21:26 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > I'm under the impression that the filtering and spam handling is better
> > in Evolution.   Am I wrong ?
> > 
> > I have 7 email accounts for various purposes that get filtered into 45
> > different mailboxes.
> > 
> > And Evolution does a good job of managing my contacts.
> > 
> > Is Kmail better than this ?
> 
> KMail is probably the most flexible GNU/Linux MUA when it comes to
> filtering.

I'll concede that the support for Sieve (server-side filtering for IMAP)
is something I've wanted to see in Evo for a long time, but otherwise I
don't see that much difference. OTOH Evo is supposed to support very
general filter expressions written in Scheme, which is rather a moot
point as it appears to be completely undocumented.

poc