I switched to evolution from mutt a little over a year ago. I found that I really need a side-panel list of folders and some better calendar integration. Since then, I'd discovered muttng and other ways of dealing w/ calendar stuff at work, but I just couldn't make myself go through the MUA switch again.
Today I have a couple new reasons. (No offense intended to the gnome/evo guys - they've been responding quickly, and ia64 doesn't have a huge desktop userbase - its something I've wanted to do for a while anyway).
I spent a couple hours splitting out configs so that I can share all of my common settings across machines, and have customizations where necessary for specific locations/situations. I used the 'source file|' syntax to call a shell script that uses heuristics to guess at my environment & generate relevant pieces of muttrc.
I'm already (re-)impressed by how much quicker I can process mail, and of course, the fact that I can customize every little property of the MUA. And I can use my $EDITOR again :)
Now I guess I should take another look at calendaring tools to go with it - I hear sunbird has pretty good support for read/writing calendar info via WebDAV...
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