[Evolution] Problem with evolution-2.32.1-9.12.1.x86_64 on Opensuse 11.4

2011-11-08 Thread James Pifer
I recently upgraded to Opensuse 11.4 from 11.1. I use Evolution for two POP3 mailboxes and one IMAP. Since the upgrade I have been having a number of nagging issues, but one has cropped up that is making it unusable. If I have my IMAP account enabled, Evolution will show in the status bar: "Stor

Re: [Evolution] Using multiple address books and multiple accounts

2010-01-07 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 18:53 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 19:06 -0500, James Pifer wrote: > > One problem I'm having is searching multiple address books when > > composing email. I have several local address books and one that uses > > ldap. How can I g

[Evolution] Using multiple address books and multiple accounts

2010-01-07 Thread James Pifer
I've always used evolution for my mailing lists. I just switched my "main" email from thunderbird to evolution. All my contacts and email converted without issue which is nice. One problem I'm having is searching multiple address books when composing email. I have several local address books and

Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?

2007-11-13 Thread James Pifer
> Are you sure that you just haven't forgot to do Folder/Clean (or > Purge, I am not sure with the English wording)? IMHO, exactly in > terms of deleted messages on IMAP servers Evolution is much > better than Thunderbird, which is just clueless. Google for it > a little bit, but IMHO (and in t

Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?

2007-11-07 Thread James Pifer
> > I can't be the only exception to this. I've been using Evo since > it's .9x days on various flavors of Fedora Core, and recently Ubuntu. > In all this time, I have only seen Evo crash a handful of times. My > initial impression is that Exchange users are the ones that seem to > suffer the m

Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird?

2007-11-06 Thread James Pifer
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 15:27 +0200, Danie Malherbe wrote: > Hi Bob, > > The only reason why I am sticking to TB and not Evolution is that I > use 3 "service providers"...cellphone, exchange, and home DSL, so it > is very easy to switch between the 3 SMTPs in TB (change which SMTP to > use for sendi

Re: [Evolution] Multiple SMTP servers in Evolution?

2007-02-27 Thread James Pifer
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 12:59 +0100, Gerhard Kremer wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have just switched over from KDE to GNOME, and I plan on replacing > KMail with Evolution. I have a problem with the latter though. > > I have two accounts, called Home and Work. Each account has

[Evolution] Verizon XV6700 PDA/Phone

2006-08-21 Thread James Pifer
Anyone using a Verizon XV6700 PDA/Phone? I'm looking at getting one. Being a Windows Mobile device with Outlook, does anyone know if there's any type of integration with Fedora/Evolution? I don't think I would want a lot, but I would like to be able to sync my contacts somehow. Even if it's some

Re: [Evolution] Reply to List not Newsgroup

2006-05-16 Thread James Pifer
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 13:51 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > > I don't see the "Newsgroups" line in the headers of my other mailing > > lists. I'm trying to work with the people on that list to understand > > what is going on, but I'm not really getting anyw

[Evolution] Reply to List not Newsgroup

2006-05-16 Thread James Pifer
I'm a member of a mailing list for our helpdesk. I'm not sure what mailing list software they use. If I try to respond to a message that I get from the list Evolution wants to do a "Post To:" an mbox instead of giving me the normal To: the mailing list address. In the headers I think this is the

Re: [Evolution] Mail notification for 2.6

2006-05-12 Thread James Pifer
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 22:06 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > [snip] > > I have NEVER had any type of > > notification and it really bugs me. Evolution has the option for at > > least playing a sound, bu

Re: [Evolution] Mail notification for 2.6

2006-05-11 Thread James Pifer
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:30 -0700, Scott Anderson wrote: > mail-notification quit working for me once I updated to evo 2.6. The debian > bug report hints that > the dbus notification was fixed in 2.6 and requested mail-notification to > update. Are there other > ways of getting a visual clue th

[Evolution] Which browser to start when clicking on URLs?

2006-03-09 Thread James Pifer
Is it possible to configure Evolution to open a specific browser wehen you click on a URL in a message? I have one installthat opens links in Firefox. I'd like to change it to open them in mozilla. Thanks, James ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolutio

Re: [Evolution] Connecting to LDAP address book

2006-02-02 Thread James Pifer
Steve, The LDAP support stops at a 1000 I believe. I also tried to use LDAP and we have thousands of users. I ended up getting an export of the users and creating an additional address book with those users. Over time it will get out of sync, but for now it is a worthwhile work around. Hopefully t

Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

2006-01-30 Thread James Pifer
> Yeah, must admit I forgot to do that. With the config.log and a little > googling I found I needed to install evolution-data-server-devel. Now I > can get past configure, but during make it fails with the error below. > Googling again I found one hit on the ubuntu forum for the error, but I > ca

Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

2006-01-25 Thread James Pifer
> hm I get this when I do it: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> yum install mail-notification > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: i386 packages 9.3 > Error - /var/cache/yum/i386/header.info cannot be found > Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system. > [EMAIL

Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

2006-01-25 Thread James Pifer
> > I also looked at several mail notification programs and had a similar > > dislike to them as the OP. I've installed the one you suggested and it > > does look like it might fit the bill. I installed it using yum so the > > version is mail-notification 2.0-2.fc4. > > how did you get it installe

Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

2006-01-23 Thread James Pifer
> As I said before: check config.log. It'll say what's going wrong. > Yeah, must admit I forgot to do that. With the config.log and a little googling I found I needed to install evolution-data-server-devel. Now I can get past configure, but during make it fails with the error below. Googling aga

Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

2006-01-20 Thread James Pifer
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:36 +0100, Mathieu De Zutter wrote: > James Pifer wrote: > > >>Mail-notification 2.0 has support for evolution and compiles against evo > >>2.2. The patch is probably to be able compile against evo 2.4. I patched > >>the source manu

Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

2006-01-20 Thread James Pifer
> >Yeah, I tried to do that yesterday. I downloaded and installed the src > >for evo. I can see that the evolution source was installed > >under /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. Unfortunately, the mail-notification > >install still says it can't find it when I do: > >./configure --with-evolution-source-dir

Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

2006-01-20 Thread James Pifer
> You probably need to specify a level deeper in the directory structure. > To ultimate way of knowing what goes wrong is reading config.log -- it > will contain an error that it can't find a particular file. This should > enable you to fix it. > Ok, getting closer. I extracted the file and unt

Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

2006-01-20 Thread James Pifer
> Mail-notification 2.0 has support for evolution and compiles against evo > 2.2. The patch is probably to be able compile against evo 2.4. I patched > the source manually (some build dependencies etc..). > > So you don't really need that patch. Get the source rpm, enable the > evolution compil

Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

2006-01-19 Thread James Pifer
> Firstly I have evolution 2.4.2, so I don't know if that makes a > difference to the applet. > > I added a mailbox in the prefs window, using: > "mailbox type" "Evolution" > "mailbox name" "INBOX" > "Folder" > > looking at the mail-notification source (for gentoo) I see a patch > applied cal

Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

2006-01-18 Thread James Pifer
> I know you mentioned you didn't want mail-notify already but have you > really looked into it? It doesn't "check your mail" a second time > around (necessarily) - you can set it to look at your evolution folders > instead of checking for mail. That way it lets you know when the mail > has arriv

Re: [Evolution] Import from csv

2006-01-06 Thread James Pifer
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:07 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Just for completeness, it's worth pointing out that there are two places > where limits might apply to the number of LDAP entries searched: > > 1) Within Evo, the LDAP config can specify Max Entries and Max Timeout. > > 2) The LDAP *

Re: [Evolution] Import from csv

2006-01-05 Thread James Pifer
> We've had the same problem before, and we solved it this way: > http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/127 > > Please notice the "see also" at the beginning of the article, you'd > probably find it better now. > Also, I'm using Debian Sarge, and this Perl script is available in the > following di

Re: [Evolution] Import from csv

2006-01-05 Thread James Pifer
> > We've had the same problem before, and we solved it this way: > http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/127 > > Please notice the "see also" at the beginning of the article, you'd > probably find it better now. > Also, I'm using Debian Sarge, and this Perl script is available in the > followin

[Evolution] Import from csv

2006-01-03 Thread James Pifer
Hi. I've tried using LDAP in the past but unless something new has happened, there seems to be a max number of entries evolution can handle. Our company has several thousand contacts and I'm not able to search for addresses past a certain number. So I have a csv file that contains full name and e

Re: [Evolution] Misc Evolution Problems

2005-12-20 Thread James Pifer
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 09:43 -0600, Chris Boyce wrote: > Edit... Preferences... Calendar and Tasks... > Click on Display tab... Compress weekends in month view... un-check it. > > SWEET! Thanks! ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.or

Re: [Evolution] Misc Evolution Problems

2005-12-20 Thread James Pifer
> As far as I can see Evo does do that - certainly on my setup I have my > work email set to go out through my work SMTP server and my personal > mail to go out via my server, and the route is determined by which > 'account' I use. They are both IMAP servers though if it makes a > difference. I

Re: [Evolution] Misc Evolution Problems

2005-12-20 Thread James Pifer
> I'm not sure but do you have a reason why you want to do this? Does it > really matter what smtp server each mail account is sent from? Why not > bypass the complete thing and use sendmail on your local machine > instead? Yes, I do have reasons. I use a branch office VPN connection to my compan

Re: [Evolution] Misc Evolution Problems

2005-12-20 Thread James Pifer
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 10:59 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 16:07 -0500, James Pifer wrote: > > > > > 1) I have a POP3 account and an IMAP account setup on 2.2.3. Both > > accounts have outgoing SMTP servers assigned. When I send mail, it

[Evolution] Misc Evolution Problems

2005-12-19 Thread James Pifer
I have been using Evolution for a pretty long time as an Outlook replacement. I like Evolution a lot, but there are some things that really annoy me so I'm wondering if there are any solutions to these. I'm currently using version 2.2.3. (I have 2.0.2 on another machine) 1) I have a POP3 account a