Pete - thanks for your reply. See my comments interleaved below. --Mark
-----Original Message----- > From: Pete Biggs <p...@biggs.org.uk> > To: evolution-list@gnome.org > Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:49:12 +0000 > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Need config help on Evolution email client > > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 01:24 -0500, Mark Foley wrote: > > I've just installed Evolution 3.10.4 on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS with Cinnamon > > desktop. So far I like it, but I'm having some problems. > > As others have said, it appears that 3.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 is broken in > various ways (it's to do with the Ubuntu packaging - 3.10 was fine on > other systems). 3.10 is also very old now and unsupported. So, your recommendation? Should I get the latest stable release? I assume that would be 3.18.2 from https://download.gnome.org/sources/evolution/3.18/. Or do you think that wouldn't work on Ubuntu. Any idea why the Ubuntu folks have not kept this updated? In fact, I don't think I've used Evolution enough to have found actual bugs. > > > > 1. I've configured 2 accounts: one for POP, one for IMAP -- different > > servers > > (personal, work). The POP accounts works just fine. The IMAP account works > > for > > sending (which means the SMTP works), but I can't get my mail. I've > > configured > > iPhone, Android, Outlook, roundCube to connect to the IMAP server and they > > all > > work. I believe I'm using the same settings for Evolution, but nothing. > > When I > > monitor the dovecot log on the IMAP server it shows nothing at all when I do > > send/receive on Evolution. Yet I can `telnet popserver.com 143 and it > > connects > > and shows in the dovecot log. It's as if Evolution isn't even trying the > > IMAP > > connection. I've tried ports 143 and 993, with and without TLS. Nada. Any > > idea > > what's going on? > > Run Evolution from the command line to see if any errors are shown. If > there is nothing obvious, run it with IMAP debugging enabled - see > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Debugging > > and that will tell you what is happening. In fact, I now have this working. Not sure what the problem was. Maybe an expired security certificate. I saw a warning on that when trying to connect using Thunderbird and when I fixed the cert, Evolution started working. > > 2. On the POP account, I have a calendar. I've clicked Actions > Publish > > Calendar, but nothing at all happens. Why? > > What do you mean that you "have a calendar" on the POP account? And > what did you expect to happen when you publish the calendar? Have you > setup the location to publish to? I shouldn't have said "on the POP account". Ignore that. What I expect to happen when I click on 'Publish' is to see a dialog, like Outlook, with options to publish to a WebDAV server and asking for the name of the server, date range to publish, etc. Instead, nothing at all happens. After reading your comment, I suppose I do need to configure this first. In Preferences > Calendar and Tasks > Locations > Add, I see where to do this. I'll go through the instruction in https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/calendar-publishing.html.en and post back if I have issues. > > 3. I've "labeled" one of the messages as 'Important' (right-click message > > > Label > Important). This is indicated on the 'Label' drop-down as a red > > square. > > However, the message does not show this anywhere. I can select 'Show > > > Important' and it does filter by that, but I'd like to see the red square > > somewhere in my message list view. Doable? > > > Messages marked as "Important" will be coloured red in the message list > and have a flag/indicator in the third column (the actual icon used > depends on your window manager and theme). There is no indication in > the message view of the flag status. > > But you should also be aware that there is a difference between the > "Important" flag (Right click > Mark as Important) and the Evolution > internal label "Important" (Right click > Label > Important). The > labels only apply to the messages on a specific machine - i.e. they are > held in a local database; the flag, which is an IMAP property, will be > present on whatever client is using the IMAP store. > > Yes, I know it's confusing, it's historical. The rationale is that the > labels can be modified to say anything - it just so happens one of them > says "Important" by default; the Flag is a marker that by convention > means "this message is important" on mail clients. OK, yes, a bit confusing. I'm going to reply to this with a new thread. > P. > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
