Re: [Evolution] exporting mails to txt or pdf

2012-06-20 Thread Milan Crha
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 14:04 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > I have an Evolution mail folder with lots of e-mails I would like to > export to some external format (txt, pdf, doc). > ... > Is this possible ? Hi, it depends on your version. Since 3.4.x you can set evolution to export mess

Re: [Evolution] exporting mails to txt or pdf

2012-06-20 Thread Lailah
Andre, is true that they are text but aren't accesible to common user. He wants to read them independently from mail client and, instead of printing them (what is very bad to ecology), he wants to export them to a file format as pdf or txt. What is wrong about this? Joao, I can remember that the

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Robert Seward
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 15:41 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > I know people will say "in this day and age" etc. etc. but as a mail > admin on machines with limited resources, big messages are a PAIN. I agree with Pete. Use Dropbox or what ever web server you have access to post large files to. Give

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Tom Davies
--- On Wed, 20/6/12, Bart wrote: > Wow!  A hornet's nest I seem to have poked. > > For the record, I contacted the recipient before attempting > this > transfer and got his permission and encouragement.  We > both have what is > considered high speed connections (10 mbs) so time was not > con

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 15:41 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > I know people will say "in this day and age" etc. etc. but as a mail > admin on machines with limited resources, big messages are a PAIN. There's also the issue of mailbox quotas on the receiving end. I would think it's just basic courtesy to

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Pete Biggs
> I did end up using one of the file sharing services so the file was > transferred successfully although sitting here I can't determine why > sending it to a file sharing service, and having it downloaded on the > other end would result in any less electrons being abused than sending > it as an a

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 07:48 -0600, Bart wrote: > I thought one of the developers just might want to be advised, and > might even want a copy of the file to determine why it failed and why > Evolution did not gracefully handle the error. I'm curious enough to look at it since I wrote the attachment

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Bart
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 06:52 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 12:29 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El día Wednesday, June 20, 2012 a las 05:12:07AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams > > escribió: > > > NO WAY! This isn't the 1990s. There certainly is a reasonable upper > > > l

Re: [Evolution] exporting mails to txt or pdf

2012-06-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 14:04 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > I have an Evolution mail folder with lots of e-mails I would like to > export to some external format (txt, pdf, doc). You could create a new MBOX type account, copy the messages to that account [file] and then backup/archive that fil

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 12:29 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Wednesday, June 20, 2012 a las 05:12:07AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams > escribió: > > NO WAY! This isn't the 1990s. There certainly is a reasonable upper > > limit for an e-mail message but it isn't 12MB. I routinely send 50 - > >

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, June 20, 2012 a las 05:12:07AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams escribió: > NO WAY! This isn't the 1990s. There certainly is a reasonable upper > limit for an e-mail message but it isn't 12MB. I routinely send 50 - > 75MB collections of files via e-mail and via Evolution. Evolutio

Re: [Evolution] Question about the background to my e-mails

2012-06-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 21:30 -0700, Jeffrey Needle wrote: > Using Evolution 3.2.3 on a Lubuntu 12.04 system > I'm finding that the background to my e-mail compose window is grey, as > is the background to *most* of my e-mails. This is really hard on my > eyes. I've looked for a place to change thi

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 07:42 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Tuesday, June 19, 2012 a las 09:10:45PM -0600, Bart escribió: > > Evolution 3.2.3 > > KDE 4.7.2 > > openSuse 12.1 > > Last night, I tried to send an email containing an attachment. The > > attachment is a .MP4 type file of about 12

Re: [Evolution] Question about the background to my e-mails

2012-06-20 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 21:30 -0700, Jeffrey Needle wrote: > Using Evolution 3.2.3 on a Lubuntu 12.04 system. > > I'm finding that the background to my e-mail compose window is grey, as > is the background to *most* of my e-mails. This is really hard on my > eyes. I've looked for a place to change

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The better answer is to upload the movie to one of the many file-sharing services, such as these (which i have never tried personally) https://www.dropbox.com/ https://www.rapidshare.com/ There are a LOT of them and some are better than others. Probably everyone on this list has different