LinuxWorld: The Outlook on Evolution & Aethera
Sep 07, 2001, 15:19 (12 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Nicholas Petreley)
"In its current state, Aethera is the antithesis of
Evolution. Unlike Evolution, Aethera not only promises to deliver
the functions of Outlook, but to fulfill the Outlook user's need
for meaningless glitz at every level. To be perfectly fair, I
couldn't find a feature to specify a default message display font
in Aethera, and I didn't even see a feature that lets you view raw
header text. I did notice there is an option to set the default
font for composing messages. Nevertheless, if you download it and
try it for yourself, I guarantee you'll get the impression Aethera
will be much more user-friendly than Evolution.
Here's the problem. Whatever features Aethera may have or
promise to have, I'm still trying to find one that works. I looked
at the source code and found many of the promised features are in
there. Aethera claims to support IMAP4, and I can vouch for the
fact IMAP4 code exists in the program. Aethera let me define an
IMAP4 account. I even found the section of code where it figures
out when to launch a thread that logs in to the IMAP4 server. The
code that actually logs you into your IMAP4 server seems to be
AWOL, but the place where it's supposed to happen is right
there.
Of course, I haven't studied the code carefully, so I don't know
for certain if the programmers missed that minor detail or if I
misinterpreted the way the program is structured. But it would
certainly explain why I couldn?t get Aethera to retrieve my mail.
What it doesn't explain is why nothing else seems to work,
either."
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