Thanks for the hint! I have not changed much regarding the add-ons for some time. How could I find a hint in the bug reports which add-on/extension might be a problem for the crash and/or script causing freezes?
Is there any source to those statements?
Because this information sounds triple-important to any end-user, as I couldnât find any notice whatsoever, that Evolution is not under active development anymore â it silently just fails to launch under current Ubuntu installations (20.04).
And if there is a source to your statement above, could you also add that to the Evolution Wikipedia-Article? Because you obviously have some insider-news that would be interesting for the rest of the world.
@feeela I would be also interested to know any source to those statements, too.
From my experience, Evolution is very much alive and the community around it active & helpful.
Evolution in Ubuntu 20.04 should work fine (with some known bugs as it is not the freshest version, but 22.04 is around the corner 
).
Please ask for help on the Evolution mailing list and state which Evolution version you use and which distro. You usually get a response within a day or even hours.
I think Evolution is a decent state. Itâs not every open source project that even has such an active maintainer as Milan! 
Evolution-ews works very well in a corporate environment with Office365 for example, a pretty common setup.
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I can second what @ernstp wrote! The maintainer is really active and the same is true for the community in the Evolution mailing list. You always get a helpful answer from the maintainer or someone knowledgeable about Evolution within hours or a day.
This seems not to happen in the same way in the Thunderbird community. I have posted one query on support.mozilla.org and one on github.com/mozilla/kitsune in January. The first one was only viewed by myself and no comment or answer was given to both of my queries for two months.
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Hi,
Back agaaaaain here.
I was using TB. I was in a change-mood to give another chance to Evolution. So I installed it, made all the config needed and used it seriously for two weeks (work incl.).
In fact there are no big differences with TB. But a lot of small things that make TB imo better:
- better UI (TB 102 snap here), Evolution seems so outdated
- much better calendar appearance and display (eg. the length of the working dayâs view in week view)
- TB does not annoy user with Evolutionâs lot of errors (cannot refresh blablabla, etc.)
- better suscribed folders handling
- possibility to rename accounts (Ev. with GOA does not)
- better joined image handling
- better folder columns customization
Of course, there still are cons:
- no integration with GNOME Shell
- not available as calendar default app
Well, Iâm back to TB because I find it simply more polished and reliable.
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Hi François!
Thank you for taking your time to write a new post about your experience with Evolution. It is a pity it did not work out, maybe in the future again 
. I understand that the small things draw you back to TB. Everyone has a different workflow & preferences and these can draw them to a certain app. For me it is the other way round and I have noticed on the Evolution mailing list (new lists on GNOME Discourse and a classic mailing list https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-users) that there is a steady flow of new Evolution users.
I hope TB and Evolution will continue to be under active development and get better. I think they can help each other.
Yes, for sure it would be a good point to have an Evol snap to get recent updates (and for confinment).
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Yes me too, Thunderbird 102 is great, and seeing what is coming up with the next version has me excited. I have also moved back to Thunderbird (snap version).
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There is no snap version yet (this might change if the request of this thread will be granted ), but a flatpak:
Instructions: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Flatpak
Evolution on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Evolution
From the posts are read, the flatpak experience of Evolution is fine now and you get quicker updates especially if you are on Ubuntu LTS.
Yes I know the flatpak package but as possible I avoid managing two systems snap+flatpak.
Maybe the whole Gnome Shell will be a snap in the future, iirc there was a plan to do that?
Wow, you are quick 
! I can not avoid two systems as some apps are only flatpak and other snap 
. But both systems run well on my computer and I can not feel any interaction problems.
I really like both. They are nice but there is an annoying bug with gnome and thunderbird (since gnome 43)
the result is that the mail function of nautilus does not work. If there is no workaround maybe evolution could be a solution
Yes, I like them both, too.
As I am not on 22.10 I can not help with your query. But if you can test it with Evolution, please update us if the email to Email function works with it.
As itâs described in the bug report, the email function works with evolution
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Thank you, @cartes, for the confirmation that the Nautlius âSend Emailâ works with Evolution. Hopefully soon with TB again, too.
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