Evolution is Way Behind

Robin

Hi!

I wonder why Evolution (groupware, email) is 3.44.4 when the newest bersion is waaaaaay ahead of that. I can't use it for email because it doesn't even offer SSL/TLS on IMAP. Very strange.

Thunderbird is effortless, but I wanted to try a non-Mozilla product.

RodMyers

Looking at Freshports.org --> https://www.freshports.org/mail/evolution/

that is the latest version that FreeBSD, GhostBSD has available

Robin

Tried out Geary for email today and I love it's simplicity! It doesn't seem to have an "Address Book," so I installed gnome-contacts, but I can't get gnome contacts to import the .csv file that was created when I tried to export the Address Book from Thunderbird.

I want to purge all Mozilla stuff and replace it. The browser was easy! But Thunderbird is a whole 'nother story. Evolution (3.44.4) doesn't support SSL or STARTTLS. Geary does, but adding Contacts isn't offered. I suppose I can copy-and-paste from the saved .csv file, but I'd rather have a way to store contacts and make them accessible to Geary.

I'm unfamiliar with most email clients, but a few that I have tried don't support WYSIWYG editors for composing HTML emails (and I rely on that heavily). KMail pulls in a huge stack of KDE stuff I'd rather not clutter up the computer with, Mutt, Claws-mail, and Slypheed don't seem to offer HTML at all, reading or writing. Are there others I should try that don't appear in a Software Station search?

Thanks!

Robin

Okay, mark this one SOLVED, albeit painstakingly. Once I got all the contacts copied-and-pasted into Contacts, I'm able to just start typing the name(s) of the recipients in the "TO" field and a list appears in a new window to click on. So I gave Geary an Address Book.

The only minor issue was that Contact crashed after adding a new contact. Click the plus sign again to add another contact caused Contact to crash. I had to re-open it from the app menu each time to add a new contact, so maybe that's a bug.

I'm officially free of Mozilla on my computer now! Why I needed to be is off-topic, but suffice it to say it's delightfully possible.