Thunderbird vs Evolution mail
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I may be wrong, but I have the impression that in the FOSS community Thunderboird is recommended more often than Evolution for mails and calendar.
Is there a good reason for that which is not only about taste?
It has to do with the popularity of Mozilla and that it has always been called an "open source" project, which is like a buzz word that gnu/linux users react to.
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Thunderbird is also available on windows and macos, so I guess many people are familiar with it.
I have been using Thunderbird on these two systems, but my experience was sometimes not that good. When I switched to Trisquel, I had looked at gpg and saw that Thunderbird did not use the computer gpg keyring, while Evolution did, so it was a key point for me to try Evolution. Then when I tried Icedove, I found I largely preferred the interface of Evolution, and found it easier to use. You can have calendar and contacts there, and there is no need for any extension.
I am subscribed to the evolution user mailing list, there are great people willing to help, I find assistance from there fantastic, I always had a quick and accurate answer to my questions. This reinforced me that I made a good choice.
Recently, on another forum, someone asked which is the free software you use most or prefer. My answer was Evolution, it was very obvious to me.
I had looked at gpg and saw that Thunderbird did not use the computer gpg keyring, while Evolution did, so it was a key point for me to try Evolution. Then when I tried Icedove, I found I largely preferred the interface of Evolution, and found it easier to use. You can have calendar and contacts there, and there is no need for any extension.
Nowadays, you need no extension to have calendar, contacts or GPG integrated in Icedove. It does task management and chatting for some protocols (such as Matrix) out of the box too. As for the interface, it is greatly customizable from the "burger menu" (accessible through the button representing three stacked segments): how compact, what is the general layout, what bars are displayed, etc.