On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 16:40 -0600, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 16:46 -0600, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > > I've been using Evolution v1.4.6 on a RedHat 9 box for years and finally > > decided it was time to move to something newer. I've installed Fedora 8, > > which includes Evolution v2.12.1. I copied over my /evolution directory > > hoping Evolution would notice it on start up and magically upgrade it. > > No such luck. It did see it but immediately generated this error... > > > I worked on this problem most of the weekend and have made some progress > that may help others in my situation. > > I left out something in my original post that I realize now is quite > important. My Evolution 1.4.6 was configured to store its data in > maildir format. This is directly related to my upgrade problem because > support for user configurable local storage formats was dropped > somewhere along the way between 1.4.6 and 2.12.
[...] > While maildir support for local file storage was dropped from Evolution, > maildir support as an inbound "Server Type" was added. What this means > is you can select maildir as an alternative to POP3 or IMAP on the > inbound server type selector. > > At first this seemed useless to me because my inbound server is POP3. If > I selected POP3, I couldn't have maildir support. If I picked maildir, I > couldn't retrieve my mail. Then I realized I might be able to create a > second account and kludge the two together somehow. So, Account 1 > receives email from my POP3 server. Account 2 points to a Maildir area > on my hard disk and acts as an alternate local datastore. I then had to > create filters that move inbound mail from Account 1 to Account 2. Possibly you could use fetchmail instead of a direct connection to your POP provider, and thus eliminate one of the accounts. I believe fetchmail supports maildir format. [...] > Otherwise, I've noticed three other minor annoyances in the move from > 1.4.x to 2.12: > > - No more "reply to list" option on the context menu. In 1.4.6, the > message context menu gave three reply options: "reply to sender", "reply > to list", and "reply to all". In 2.12 there are only two options: "reply > to sender" and "reply to all". I subscribe to many lists and used the > "reply to list" option frequently. Now to reply to a list message, I > have to go through a multi-step process: click the message to highlight > it, click "Message", then click "Reply to List". Actually, I'm surprised > that simply clicking "reply" isn't automatically interpreted as "reply > to list" when you click on an email from a list. It doesn't seem like it > would be that hard to do. Oh well. Make sure you have the "Mailing List actions" plugin enabled. Message->Reply to List is Ctrl-L. > - I can't use filters to put email into the junk folder. My inbound > emails include a Spamassassin "X-Spam-flag: YES" if they were scored as > spam by the ISP. I'd like to move these into the junk folder instead of > my inbox but I can't select "junk" when the move dialog asks for the > folder name. As it is, I had to create a "junk2" folder. The built-in > spam checker uses the junk folder, so now I have to go through two > different junk folders instead of one. There is no Junk folder. Junk is a virtual folder, like Trash. Select "Set Status to Junk" as the filter action. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
