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Outlook vs Evolution vs Kontact: an e-mail client comparison

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2005-05-18 15:55. Evolution
Evolution

We've put together a series of side-by-side screen shots of Outlook 2003, Evolution 2.2.1.1 and Kontact 1.1 as a visual comparison of these three groupware rivals.

A couple of excellent open source Outlook alternatives are available which provide similar and additional features, such as Novell Evolution and KDE Kontact. If you're afraid you won't have Outlook to keep you organized in a Linux environment, you need not fear. The following screen shots show how far the open source alternatives have come.

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split evolution up into smaller apps

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-05-21 19:45.

i wish they would just split evolution out into smaller apps that use the evolution-data-server for data communication. for example, one gigantic window for doing simple task management is just crazy.

sure

Submitted by foo on Thu, 2005-05-19 19:15.

Good article except that these "I looked at each for a couple hours" articles tell you nothing about real usability and stability and bugginess. Feature-wise, Evolution may seem like an Outlook2003 competitor but the reality is that Evolution is a piece of crap. It is buggy, connector is *really* buggy, the backend servers crash all the time.

Not buggy here

Submitted by msevior on Sat, 2005-05-21 07:07.

I don't find evo buggy. I run it for weeks at a time to automatically filter my email and keep it on my imap server.

Admittedly I never use any of the connector stuff but as a fast email/spam filter/contacts/todo/calendar program it works great.

Outlook vs Evolution by Anonymous George
big buttons by Anonymous George

It's not the size ;)

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-05-20 12:20.

The point is that Evo is way too much trying to copy Outlook, even when things don't make sense.

Outlook 2003 kicks ass. by Anonymous George
Outlook 2003 is awful. I use by Anonymous George