# Default email client

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/default-email-client/2422>\
**Category:** Wish list\
**Created:** [September 10, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/default-email-client/2422 "2019-09-10T07:28:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![centoasa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/centoasa/32/1590_2.png) [@centoasa](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/centoasa)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/default-email-client/2422/1 "2019-09-10T07:28:59Z")

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In all linux distribution I’ve never found the best (for me) email client Evolution: it’s small, light and fast, and full connected with Google world!

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**Author:** ![puffettacicciottella](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/puffettacicciottella/32/4525_2.png) [@puffettacicciottella](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/puffettacicciottella)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/default-email-client/2422/2 "2019-09-12T09:45:45Z")

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Hi centoasa,  
as far as I know, Evolution comes natively in Budgie; first picture is a screenshot from an original budgie 18.04 iso and second comes from my fully installed pc.  
BTW, “small, light and fast” maybe is too much if applied to Evo: I’m using it both at home and on jobplace and I’m fully satisfied but I fear it isn’t nor small, neither light or fast! 🙄

Best,

Sil

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**Author:** ![centoasa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/centoasa/32/1590_2.png) [@centoasa](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/centoasa)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/default-email-client/2422/3 "2019-09-12T10:08:32Z")

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In my version (and I believe in all of them) 19.04 natively there was only the horrible (for me) Geary  
I always install evolution in all the distro I have tried, because in a flash I restore and find all the evolution settings. I find it the best email client! 😀

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**Author:** ![puffettacicciottella](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/puffettacicciottella/32/4525_2.png) [@puffettacicciottella](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/puffettacicciottella)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/default-email-client/2422/4 "2019-09-12T13:43:27Z")

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Right, sorry. I’ve right now checked: on 19.10 (so I can imagine on 19.04 too) Evolution is missing. My fault, obviously, since I’m using only LTS … let’s see if it will be on 20.04.

A little suggestion about backupping and restoring settings: It happened to me that a brand new installed Evolution refused to load a previously saved tar.gz. Since then I’maintaining a backup copy of everything stored into ~/.config/evolution and ~/.local/share/evolution (same story for Tomboy notes too).

Sil

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**Author:** ![centoasa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/centoasa/32/1590_2.png) [@centoasa](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/centoasa)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/default-email-client/2422/5 "2019-09-12T14:39:55Z")

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never had any problems with old backups on new installations of evolution

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**Author:** ![codic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/codic/32/2569_2.png) [@codic](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/codic)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/default-email-client/2422/6 "2019-12-05T23:59:05Z")

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@fossfreedom is it possible to replace Geary with Evolution? It’s much better. My only problem with Geary is when you batch delete messages, it throws an error ☹

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/default-email-client/2422/7 "2019-12-06T08:50:00Z")

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you certainly can uninstall geary and install evolution.

Please report the batch delete bug for geary:

```
ubuntu-bug geary
```

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**Author:** ![codic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/codic/32/2569_2.png) [@codic](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/codic)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/default-email-client/2422/8 "2019-12-06T16:41:58Z")

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Ok I will when i get home thx