Thunderbird Vs. Evolution Vs. OwnCloud

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Hi,

I’m currently using Thunderbird synced to OwnCloud on my main workstation running Slackware64 14.1. I just installed CentOS 7 on my Asus S300 laptop. It’s running nicely, and I’m spending some time getting acquainted with it.

I wonder if I should stick with Thunderbird or go with the default Evolution application, since this seems to be better integrated into the desktop, namely the calendar function.

On the other hand, it seems like you have to jump through burning loops to connect Evolution to OwnCloud.

What are your experiences with these two clients and OwnCloud? Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs
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7 thoughts on - Thunderbird Vs. Evolution Vs. OwnCloud

  • I use Thunderbird exclusively on my linux-systems. I also feel the Lightning-addin for calendars in T-bird needs “some” work to be usable.

    While I don’t use my Owncloud for mail, only used as a cloud storage, I have however used Evolution. In that context Evolution with CentOS sucks. It’s just plain ugly and not a bit intuitive IMHO.

    My workaround is to just connect to my calendars (Google Calendar) with a web browser.

    YMMV of course.

  • I have zero experience with OwnCloud but Evolution was my default mail client for years, I was an early adopter of it.

    I only use IMAP for mail, so I do not need to sync anything as everything is kept on the server.

    I stopped using Evolution because it started having massive problems, it became very frustrating how often my workflow was interrupted because Evolution had some problem that it solved by rebuilding its own index of all my mail folders. That would take a long time, especially on my laptop, and it interrupted my ability to read and send mail.

    Since switching to Thunderbird I have not experienced that kind of problem once. It’s always there and always usable.

  • Just use MATE – where it isn’t even an issue (MATE is a fork of Gnome 2
    and is in EPEL)

    yum groupinstall “MATE Desktop”

    Then at the login screen, you select MATE as your desktop environment. There’s a gear or some similar icon on the login screen that lets you pick the desktop for the login, and it remembers what you picked the next time you login.