First of all, sorry for my bad English.

Evolution needs to be improved. It has a variety of nice functions, but there are still a few little things that make Evolution no full alternative for Outlook. Like:


-Allow the user to group messages on date,sender
-Improve the discussion view, like Office 2003 does (Not because it should be a clone, but because it's just better)
-Always sort the messages from last received to first received (don't display the last received mail entirely down
-Provide option to forward mails as real mails, not as an attachment
-Accept HTML mail by default (because almost all home users want this, because they can send pictures with it)
-When dragging a mail onto a folder/your desktop, don't include mail headers and provide a HTML page instead of plain text.
-Move search function to below the "Show:" drop down menu
-Provide option to password protect memos
-Integrate contact search option into the search bar
-Provide some plug in options to general options
-Provide option to change the default server ports
-Provide option to export mail (no backup archive, just exporting mail to Outlook/Thunderbird/Lotus etc.)
-Better Mail List (improve the fonts of it, add borders to each item
-Include hover icon to all icons

I hope you like (some) of my ideas.

It would very helpful if the email subjects in evolution can be renamed. This helps to find an email again. This is already possible with thunderbird and outlook. For my wife it is a crucial feature and she is hesitant to switch from outlook to evolution because of that.

Every time I use the GMail-Webinterface from a different computer that doesn't have Evolution (like a public computer) to send an email it is downloaded to the "Inbox"-folder by Evolution on my home computer if I am using POP3.

This might also apply to other Web-Services.

As i understand it at present its needed to go into the synaptic package manager and search for aspell-XX, where XX denotes the language of the dictionary you want to add to the evolution mail client. This is counterintuitive, as its a completely different program and the amount of languages available is not that great (im missing danish).

When trying to organise a calender you have to collect the information about all your events and add this to your calender. This is time consuming and you can miss critical events.

I don't like to receive mails from persons whom I don't trust. It often makes many people angry.

The way emails can be filtered and assigned to different folders within evolution is not very convenient.

The process of filtering messages by subject, address etc. only is quite inflexible and boring.

In the past, i worked with Opera for a long time, by now chose to stick to the given and integrated features within Ubuntu.

As Opera does have no calendar and task features, Evolution would be a really nice alternative, if the email filtering wasn't that outdated in comparison to Opera.

In Opera, you can create email folders and give them the ability to "learn" from the messages added and removed, similar to the already existing spam filter, but here individually for the context of your choice.

After a while and some training, the filters work like a charm and make it so much easier to sort and resort your emails.
For example, after a while the filters even recognise if the mail from a colleague belong to a project or are of personal nature and accordingly shows it within the according folder.

That's a feature i really badly miss within Evolution and which would make it a really productive tool for me.

Everyone knows Evolution is a excellent (probably the best) groupware suite for GNU/Linux.

It has lot of good functions for a officer but I believe it can improve more. A Project Manager is as important as a todo list and I dare to say that it would be more useful than this memo or even this simple todo list.

Many activities in my Todo list, for example, are part of a project, so a Project Manager that would be able to get this TO DO list and put all them together and manager them like a project would be great.

I had feel this necessity and I needed to install others softwares that aren't integrated with any kind of tools in my system making me to have big workaround to import and export data between applications.

If a *decent* Windows version of Evolution were depeloped, people wishing to turn to Ubuntu could become to use Evo, and get familiar with it.

(just like it's happening with the Gimp)

I tried to do such a thing, when I was wondering wheter (and how) to switch to Ubuntu...but Windows-Evo sucks, you just can't use it. Too bad, cause I quite liked Ubuntu-Evo.
Eventually I chose Thunderbird thinking "in case of troubles with Ubuntu, I'll just have to copy-and-paste one folder to go back to Windows..."
Now I'm keeping Tb cause if I ever needed to transfer my e-mail data to a Windows system in the future, it would be possible to do it easily.

And being realistic, at the present time there may be many reasons for that. Even if Ubuntu is spreading, in fact, still a few people use it, and in some circumstances one could be _forced_ to use Windows.

I think that part of the strategy for Ubuntu to succeed should consist in 'Trojan Horses' like Firefox, the Gimp...and, why not, Evolution.
It should be possible to transfer Evolution from Windows to Ubuntu (and vice versa) just copying a folder, like with Thunderbird and Firefox, and this software should be provided in the installation CD (if possibile).

I apologise for my English, it's not my mother language. I hope I made myself clear.

A simple idea for those of us who do still use Evolution. There is currently no option for a viewing Evolution full screen, preferably with an F11 shortcut.

p.s. no comments about replacing evolution with something more modular.