Evolution (was: Re: [plug] operating multiple e-mail clients)

[Alan Graham]

Probably iffy...  Evolution depends on a lot of ximian stuff, bonobo... 
None of this is particularly lightweight.  I've just checked the list of
dependencies, and it's as long as several arms.  Having said that, I'm
running it on a PII 500, and it's lightning fast, unlike Nautilus, which
has similar dependencies but runs like a dog.  I suppose you've got to
try it, but I wouldn't hold out much hope.  The other issue may be disk
space.  You need all of the gnome installs, as well as bonobo, etc... 
It's gotta be big.

Alan

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 21:46, Harry McNally wrote:
> On 23 May 2002 21:21:57 +0800 Alan Graham <alan.graham at infonetsystems.com.au>
> wrote:
> 
> > As an aside, use evolution.  I've tried Balsa, kmail and evolution
> > recently, and evolution is streets ahead.  Balsa's imap support is
> > ...flakey...  kmail is klunky, evolution just works.
> 
> Hi Alan
> 
> I've been setting up Sylpheed for inclusion in the new Computer Angels (debian)
> distro because it is fast for lightweight machines. I've seen people using
> evolution on mail I've received but haven't tried it. How do you thing evolution
> would go for a 90MHz 16MB P1 machine ?
> 
> All the best
> Harry
> 
>