What?

I have been using Thunderbird for years and before that Mozilla mail but I never used Evolution since everyone seemed to lambaste it. Well I am here to tell you that Evolution is a very capable if not excellent mail client!

Here are my requirements for a mail client:
* Spam filtering
* SSL/TLS support
* Extensive rules support
* Support for mailing lists
* Spellcheck support
* Block remote images by default
* IMAP Support
* GPG Support

Evolution has all these features as well as calendaring and tasks.

Is it heavier than Thunderbird? Yes, but not enough to make a huge difference considering all the added features and you have to add Sunbird, Enigmail and more to reach a equivalent feature set with Thunderbird.

Just to be clear, I still love Thunderbird, but I want to let people know that Evolution isn’t the steaming pile that it is made out to be and if you have avoided Evolution because of you heard you should give it a shot.

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