> > Ok, I take your point... But since this only happens with Evolution
> > and
> > no other applications, I am assuming that this is a problem with
> > Evolution and not the system around it
>
> If indeed there were a problem with Evolution it would still important
> to know the context. N
Hi all,
Quick question: How do I sync my local MBOX mail between a desktop
machine and a laptop? At least to start with, I only want my local mail
synced in one direction (desktop -> laptop), so that I have access to my
old mail archives whilst travelling, even if I don't have Internet
access.
Cu
Hi all,
Quick question: How do I sync my local MBOX mail between a desktop
machine and a laptop? At least to start with, I only want my local mail
synced in one direction (desktop -> laptop), so that I have access to my
old mail archives whilst travelling, even if I don't have Internet
access.
Cu
> > > Sorry if I've missed a prior post on this and any subsequent
> > > answers, but since upgrading Xubuntu from 8.04 to 8.10, Evo's
> > > email editor consistently underlines all words, not just those
> > > incorrectly spelled. And now for the obligatory cliche: It worked
> > > just fine under 8
Hi Matthew,
> Looks like it's messing up the zero languages case -- I just reproduced
> it for myself. Good observation. Can you and Peter confirm this?
Yep. I was able to reproduce the problem on 2.24.1 by doing the
following:
* Go Edit -> Preferences -> Composer Preferences -> Spell checking
Hi all,
When migrating a test laptop from Evolution 2.22.3.1 to Evolution
2.24.1, I noticed that it ran an evolution sqlite migration tool once to
do something with my email folders.
My questions are: What is this sqlite database being used for? Is it
used for storing the mail? Is my new + old lo
> > My questions are: What is this sqlite database being used for? Is it
> > used for storing the mail? Is my new + old local mail still all
> stored
> > in MBOX format?
>
> Hi,
> mails are still stored in an MBOX format, the sqlite database is for
> summaries, the index of some particular
> >> Many web pages offers ical/vcard files. Is is possible to open them
> >> directly in evolution instead of saving it first and then importing
> from
> >> the File menu?
>
> You probably have to associate VCS/VCF data with Evolution in your
> browser. In Mozilla FireFox:
> Edit -> Preferences
Hi all,
I am currently setting up reading IMAP email on my mobile phone, but one
problem is the mail that I have marked as spam in Evolution. In
Evolution it's quarantined separately into a "Junk" folder for that IMAP
account, but when I use the IMAP mobile phone client, all the spam still
shows a
> Second, note the one hyphen in my signature above the longer series
> below? I can't get rid of that "hovering hyphen." I've edited my
> signature, of course, but that hovering hyphen doesn't appear there.
> How can I get rid of that?
I hate the force-inserted hyphens too. I am forever manua
Hi all,
A few weeks ago, I read how on this list how someone (maybe poc?) used
to post their list of Evolution bugs that annoyed them, with their bug
numbers / bugzilla links.
Having just upgraded to Evolution 2.24.3, and having tested where
possible to confirm that bugs I'm watching are still pr
I want to thank you all for your great responses and feedback - even
where you firmly told me that you disagreed with me, I do appreciate it.
I'll keep the responses brief, and group them into one message to keep
it simpler.
> I did try to limit mine to my top 5-6 "really can't use this utility
>
> I'm really trying to understand what is so objectionable about the
> hyphens for some people. I don't really understand.
Let me answer your request for explanation with a completely fictitious
story - an off-line corollary, if you will - to explain why it's
objectionable to me. Indulge me.
Sup
> > Use the Templates folder in the local store.
>
> Ahhh. Yes. I see. Kinda klunky though, to have to go there and
> "Edit as New Message" rather than Message->Compose New Message From
> Template->[list of templates].
Or maybe the usual ctrl-N / "New" toolbar icon to make a new mail, and
the
Hi all,
Following the recent discussions, I though that I would try the syncing
method that people have been talking about (Funambol + syncevolution +
genesis), to keep my evolution contacts + my phone's contacts in sync.
Experiences and notes follow. Note the Linux distro was Ubuntu, so some
of
> Is it possible to add the column showing when a task was created in
> Tasks?
> We currently have a Due and Start date but not a "Creation / Updated"
> date.
> Start / Due dates only apply if you are setting a time frame for a
> specific
> task.
I can't see a way to do it either, but agree it wo
Hi Patrick,
Thank you very much for the great explanations and information!
> Writing up your experience for LWN would be useful to get the attention
> of other developers and potential packagers.
I sent LWN a rough draft to see if they were interested, but the
response was "no":
> The article,
> I suggest adding a button to dial from the contact list using skype
Good idea, could maybe be generalised a bit though. Suggest logging a
bug in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ , requesting a "dial/chat" button next
to each non-blank phone number / instant chat field, which dials the
number / initiat
> > 4) Can I call other skype users from Ekiga
>
> No, as I've said before, Skype prevents that.
... And that's the real issue for end-users. If you like free software,
BUT most of your friends or customers don't care and are using Skype,
then most people just install skype and chat to them usin
> I'm tired of waiting while trying to compose a new e-mail in
> Evolution. I just press the "New" button, and it appears to be working
> behind, but it's only after at least 15 seconds that it throws the
> compose screen. My version of Evolution is 2.26.1, and I'm using it
> in Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty
Hi Ben,
> This problem concerns the order of preference of emails when these are
> added to a Contact. I might expect that the "first" email (as entered
> in
> the Contacts dialog) is the "preferred" email (e.g., displayed on the
> Contact's address card when this is formatted in the list, first
>
> A related matter concerns the PO Box number field.
The PO Box field seems a little odd and out-of-place to me. Its tab
order is wrong, I don't know if it adds much, from what you described it
has issues with making labels and it doesn't add the "PO Box" part to
number-only fields, and I have to
otice the issue with email
addresses, because of the way I use Evo, but I suspect that for people
what different usage patterns that the same idea would apply to the
other fields too.
-- All the best,
Nick.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Roberts
To: Nick Jenkins
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Ord
> What makes an event a "meeting" rather than an "appointment"?
When you first create an event in the calendar, you specify whether it's
a meeting or an appointment (e.g. File -> New -> Meeting, or File -> New
-> Appointment). Use appointments for events/reminders just for you, and
meetings for ev
> > > It would be a lot better if instead of greying out the
> > > "send/receive" button if it switched to saying "work online"
> > >
> > > I spent time wondering if I had been hacked because of this!
> >
> > Work offline should be transparent to the user.
>
> Besides, there's already an indi
Hi all,
Is this a known bug? I've searched bugzilla, but can't see it, yet it
seems odd, so I'm assuming someone must have seen it before. Details as
follows:
I have an HTML email that I have received, with 7 attachments (i.e.
Evolution says "7 attachments" and then has the "Save All" button, and
> > latest roadmap (http://www.go-evolution.org/Evo2.26) concerns the
> > planning for 2.26. That version was released more than 6 months ago,
There's also:
http://www.go-evolution.org/Evo2.28 and
http://www.go-evolution.org/Evo2.30 (although maybe there weren't
previously links to those pages on
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588833
>
> But, suffice to say this change doesn't make much sense. I'm trying to
> think of a situation where, by default you would want to reply from a
> different address than the mail as went to but I can't.
To me the bugfix in https://bugzilla.gn
> > I failed to also mention the major issue of contact importation from
> > Outlook that currently makes my data useless to me because of the
> > issues I mentioned in the first email.
>
> Hi,
> I do not have access to an Outlook machine, but isn't there any other
> format to export your
Hi all,
Just getting ready to upgrade my main workstation from Evo 2.26 to 2.28
after testing 2.28 for a bit on a laptop, and though I might just send a
quick note to say thank you to the developers (especially Milan, who is
ceaselessly busy! and also to the developers working on backend stuff
whi
> Sorry to jump into someone elses thread, but this reminds me of a
> feature request.
>
> I'd like a "paste as plain text" option for Evolution.
>
> SHIFT-CTRL-V. I end up pasting into a text editor first and then
> recopy & paste to remove Evolutions crazy formatting.
>
> BTW, this helps some
> But when I access the second instance,
> the pop-up that responds to the "TO:" in the "EDIT" (email composing)
> mode, that window is ignoring the instruction, and displaying the
> Contacts sorted on "Full Name", rather than on the "File Under" field.
I observe the same behaviour in Evo 2.26.1;
> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 12:45 +0200, Mark Elkins wrote:
> > From: ORG.ZA Confirmation
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > This e-mail address is the only e-mail address where this happens.
> > Is there any reason why?
>
> Hi,
> yes, if I recall correctly it's that dot in the name part, plus
> spaces.
> Exchange delimits email address in the To: field with semicolons
> instead of commas. Since Evo. is set to look for commas, the result
> is that if an email is sent to more than one person, the other
> addresses do not appear in the header of the message in Evo.
>
> This is based on the Mailsta
> > > Exchange delimits email address in the To: field with semicolons
> > > instead of commas. Since Evo. is set to look for commas, the result
> > > is that if an email is sent to more than one person, the other
> > > addresses do not appear in the header of the message in Evo.
> > >
> > > Is
Hello fellow Evo users,
I would like to ask for people's feedback and comments on a proposed
shortcut key change.
Currently, when composing an email, currently ctrl-s tries to save an
email to disk (i.e. "save as..."), rather than saving a draft of the
email to the Drafts folder. ("Save Draft" is
> Would the user's Sent copy preserve the separator, or should it store
> a "canonical" version of the message? I'm not clear on the
> implications of this.
My preference would be to store the canonical version.
I.e. even if the user enters addresses with semicolons as the delimiter,
that Evo conv
> > Currently, when composing an email, currently ctrl-s tries to save
> > an email to disk (i.e. "save as..."), rather than saving a draft of
> > the email to the Drafts folder. ("Save Draft" is ctrl-shift-s).
> >
> > A request for changing this is logged in bugzilla as:
> > https://bugzilla.gnom
> Evolution hangs with "formatting" at the bottom of the message
> window. [... snip ...] Has anyone else seen a similar problem?
Closest match I am aware of is "Evolution hangs when formatting
message": https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361145
-- All the best,
Nick.
___
> I suppose my problem is my email space is very limited at my new
> company compared to the amount of automated mail coming in. That's
> why I'd like to purge mail after a couple of days. But your tools
> require me to do that MANUALLY.
>
> So now I have filters that work on incoming mail. The
> If not, I want this feature as an idea for gnome to participate in the
> SummerOfCoder2010 (please refer to
> http://live.gnome.org/action/login/SummerOfCode2010/Ideas )
If you're looking for ideas of things to implement in Evo, that have not
been implemented, have not had any devs indicate it's
> > * Undo for tasks, notes and appointments -
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413618
>
> Speaking personally it would be far more useful to have a general Undo
> in mail, specifically for deletions and message moves. This has been
> requested repeatedly over the years.
Sounds reas
> I don't know if I'm missing something but when a search an event on
> the calendar, Evo shows no results. I have to manually scroll the
> months until I find the keyword I was looking for, meaning that if an
> event was 10 years ago I have to scroll 12x10 pages before I get to
> the search result
In browsers like Chrome, the application has different processes for
each tab. The result (in theory) is that one misbehaving tab cannot
crash the whole browser.
Slightly left-of-field question: In the long-long-long-term, would it
make sense for Evolution to use this model too, with one process f
> > 1) State recovery: Would it make sense to have Evo restore all open
> > windows on reopening after a crash,
>
> That's actually near the top of my to-do list.
> [...snip...]
> This would also let you shut down your computer with Evolution still
> running, and Evolution would appear as you left
> the larger issue is that he keeps replying to digests.
If you want to get rid of the digest option, and switch everyone to be
regular subscribers, that's fine by me, I read the digests at the
moment, but it's not really much effort to adapt to such a change.
If you can't get rid of the digest o
> There was Anjal, but that project is already abandoned in favor of
> Evolution Express (coming soon in 3.0).
I had not heard of Evolution Express before. For anyone else in a
similar situation, here's some info with some screenshots if you scroll
down a bit:
http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog
> If I paste from the Chromium location bar into a random command line or text
> editor, I'm certainly getting the URL and not the contents, which is as
> I would expect.
I am almost certain it's a Chromium bug.
Here's a non-Evo test case exposing the same problem: With a
bleeding-edge daily bui
> You don't need to file enhancement requests -- all this good stuff is
> already built into the evolution-2.31 package and the "express" mode
> is triggered with a command line switch:
>
> evolution --express
>
> A lot of the enhancements will eventually seep into the standard UI.
> The code
> In the normal text area, I maintain that it should
> paste the URL, especially when the composer is in plain-text mode
I think we agree 100% on the desired outcome in this case. I absolutely
want it to paste the URL in this use-case too, and I consider the
current behaviour to be a bug, no quest
> In every other Linux application, double clicking on a word selects
> the whole word and moving the cursor while holding a mouse button down
> selects all words from the one double clicked on to the word on which
> the cursor now stands, inclusive. [...snip...] Evolution should behave
> the same
> > I'll try and post a bug against Chromium, if I can figure out where
> > (it'll probably have to be against Chrome I suppose).
>
> Interestingly, the bug doesn't happen with Chrome, just Chromium. I may
> try and contact the Chromium maintainer directly.
Just a quick follow-up on the paste bug
> I almost never use the buttons so that's irrelevant to me.
I quite like the toolbar buttons, and people who are newer to Evo will
probably use them more too. So maybe the toolbar buttons can be changed,
but only when there's the appropriate list headers? Example toolbar
buttons:
Normal email: [
> The real target of this automatic behaviour would be the clueless
> users who don't really think about what they're doing -- yes?
Plus more importantly the vast silent majority of people, who want their
email client to have sensible defaults, so they can just start using it
for its intended purp
> I am having problem to sent mail to the users, who is having user name
> with dot.
>
> Address change after/while evolution sent the mail and I get a failure
> notice.
>
> example: U. Test ---> U. T
>
> The changing patten is almost same for all the recipient users name
> with dot.
It's a
> I know nothing about Ubuntu, but Evo follows Gnome releases, so Evo
> 2.30 is part of Gnome 2.30. Ubuntu 10.04 comes with Gnome 2.28, so
> trying to persuade Evo 2.30 to work with Gnome 2.28 is always going to
> have problems. The best thing is to wait for Ubuntu 10.10 or change
> distro to one
> but I did not find any option for "Receiving Options." Would
> appreciate it if someone would tell me where I'm missing the boat.
The full drill-down is: Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Accounts -> select
account -> Edit -> Receiving options tab -> tick "check for new messages
every [xx] minutes",
> Problems with the three that are "lists" were introduced in an
> earlier email message, and have not yet been resolved. Another
> topic :-)
Question number 1: Have you logged these bugs in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ ?
Yes, it's more effort to log bugs than it is to have a whinge on the
mailing
> > How did you turn off indexes?
>
> Click on mailbox and uncheck "Index text messages". This is written in
> French, I don't know the original text in English.
I had the same question (how to turn off indexes). Looks like it's
something that applies to local/"On this computer" mailboxes only ->
> > > > IMHO, the ability to purge mailboxes should be more visible. Maybe
> > > > evolution should warn that a mailbox is full of 90% deleted messages
> > > > (which was my case).
> > >
> > > since a significant number of the queries to
> > > this list involve the fact that people don't see delet
> > 1. When I get an email with pictures, I can see them, but
> > > I can't right-click and save them. Why not?
> >
> > Depends on how the pictures are included with the email. If they are
> > attachments, then you can save them (by clicking on the arrow to the
> > right of the attachment); if t
Hi all,
I upgraded my main workstation distro this morning, which upgraded Evo
from 2.28.3 to 2.30.3. It looks good, and it's great to finally be
upgrading from something two major releases out-of-date, to something
just one major release out-of-date :-) There's a couple of things that
I'm having
> I do prefer plain text. But, a fundamental rule of program design is
> that an app should do what the user expects. When I have received an
> HTML mail and I try to forward, I EXPECT it to forward as HTML. So,
> in my eyes, this is a bug.
I have taken the liberty of converting the idea into
Thank you very much for the response Milan, it was extremely helpful,
and a few details & updates are included below.
> > * Is there some application-wide way to turn off the email preview pane?
>
> It was changed, unfortunately. I'm sorry.
No worries at all, it's a one-off transition and then i
> Why does Evo turn this item into an image and make it an attachment?
> When I right click the "attachment" and open it with Image Viewer, it
> just shows the string of numbers.
>
> Running 2.28.3 with Ubuntu 10.04, which I believe is the up-to-date
> version for that distro.
It's a bug. See: h
> FWIW, it was meaningful enough to me. The word 'Ubuntu' means that
> he's using a version of Evolution that is *so* old that I cannot be
> persuaded to care about it.
Given that we all seem to agree that Ubuntu are doofuses for not
shipping the latest stable Evo release with their distro release
> Currently Evo lets you reply to a message within a digest but quite a
> few people don't seem to realize this
It does? I'm using Evolution 2.30.3, and was reading your message in
digest format, but I could not see a way to reply to just your message
in the digest. I looked in two places:
1) I se
> > I'm running Evolution (2.30.3) on my desktop, and want to be able to
> > sync this with Evolution on the laptop (for use when away from
> > base).
> >
> > Can this be done simply by copying ~/.evolution from one to the
> > other? (This is what I do with the Pan newsreader and its ~/.pan
> > dir
> > > I hope I am complying this time - am really unfamiliar with lists.
> >
> > That's awesome. You quoted an entire digest message to reply to a
> > thread about why digest messages are obsolete and evil and how we
> > can prevent users from directly replying to them.
> >
> > I hope you're see
Hi all,
So I got a cheap Android phone a few weeks ago for $99 outright, and am
liking the automatic syncing of contacts between the phone and the "My
contacts" category of http://google.com/contacts .
Contact syncing nirvana is now within reach, with the web, my phone, and
my desktop Evo client
> Hi,
> you didn't indicate what version of evolution (-data-server) you are
> using,
Sorry, my bad, I'm running EDS 2.30.3.
> but the upcoming 3.0.0 depends on latest libgdata and supports
> most (if not all) of the fields you named above. The Google
> addressbook backend was also massi
Hi all,
I'm running an older version of Evo (2.32.2), and am seeing two possible
bugs with "Mark Read" / ctrl-k and "Mark Unread" / ctrl-shift-k.
2.32.2 is quite old now though, so before I log a bug in bugzilla, I'd
first like to ask if anyone lucky enough to be running a current version
(3.0.x
> the above is still valid in 3.1.5, the message window doesn't update
> its actions, thus if you go to Message->Mark as, then you can see that
> the state of them doesn't change when you mark message as read/unread.
> You can safely file a bug for this.
> > It works as expected from the mai
> But I'd like to hear from all of you what do you think about the proposed
> look, what would you change or keep, or remove... I have printed the email in
> various mail clients so that you can compare it and find some inspiration :)
The new WebKit one looks great!
Only things that I though l
Is there a way to turn Message Preview/the Preview Pane off by default
in Evo 3.2.2 ?
I tried the gconftool-2 command from:
http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Evolution_always_crashes_when_I_start_it.2C_what_can_I_do.3F
(although I know that this FAQ is out of date, and a kitten dies every
time w
> > Is there a way to turn Message Preview/the Preview Pane off by
> > default in Evo 3.2.2 ?
>
> You might try:
> Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> General (tab) ->
> [ ] Apply the save view settings to all folders
I've just tried it, but it did not seem to change wheth
Hi all,
Sometime after I upgraded from Evo 2.32 to Evo 3.2.2, I noticed that
there are some local address books that I could no longer view.
Specifically, when clicking on them, it doesn't show any contacts, but
it shows the following error message in red:
-
> $ gconftool-2 --get /apps/evolution/addressbook/sources | grep file:
> which should usually return no lines, but for you, I believe, it'll
> return 6 hits
It did indeed!
> as for you it should be just about getting rid of "file://" and
> replace it with "local:", and bonus points if you get r
> In a browser, I select File --> SendLink. After some click & whirr, I
> get an EVO compose message window.
> The web page title appears as the subject line -- a nice touch.
> The web page URL appears in the message body ... BROKEN.
> Instead of getting the URL on a single line of text, I get two
Hi all,
Now that the Evo 3.6 development period seems to be underway, I'm going
to post a short list of the Evo enhancement requests in bugzilla that
stand out for me the most.
There's roughly 73 open and 105 resolved bugs - a superb ratio - in
bugzilla for Evo that I've got bookmarked, either fr
> > Mail: Spell check does not spell check an email's subject line
> > [Probably blocked by the WebKit composer transition?]
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200683
> WebKit can do spell checking only in it's own widget. We will probably
> have to use some other existing spell checkin
> > > > Evolution 3.2.3, Gnome 3, FC 16
> > > > It's no major issue, but Evo tends to take an age to close down.
> I've seen this. It happens once in a while, without much consistency.
> Evolution 'grays out' after I hit close and just sits there, and sits
> there, and sits there
I've seen i
> Then create a text file named "outlook_idiot_lecture.msg",
> containing the following:
>
I'm a bit unsure that the lecture is going to change anything. Firstly
because I'm dubious about its effectiveness at being heard (positive
messages almost always trump negative ones). Secondly because it's
> > Secondly because it's directed at the wrong people (end users), when
> > it should be directed at the people who specified the app - the
> > Outlook product managers, or the people who purchased it.
>
> Are you saying home users (who are their own administrator and
> procurement team leader o
> I ask because I (like quite a few
> others, I would imagine) are using the version that comes with our
> distribution (Ubuntu 12.04 in my case)
> I'm going to see what it will take to upgrade to 3.6 on my computer
> right now.
Apparently "what it would take" to get Evo 3.6 in Ubuntu is upgradin
> > > The question is what version of Gnome comes with 14.04. Typically
> > > Ubuntu will use the "just released" version of Gnome, which for
> Ubuntu
> > > 14.04 means the version of Gnome due to be released next week:
> Gnome
> > > 3.12.
> >
> > Not as far as I know. Ubuntu has not been shippi
Hi all,
Ran into a problem this morning, but in the process of writing this
email, I worked out the solution. I'll send this mail anyway, with
solution, so if someone (including myself) encounters the same problem
later on, it's there in the archives.
Some Background: What's happened is that I re
> > Some Background: What's happened is that I recently turned on Google
> > 2-step authentication,
>
> You would be better off using GNOME Online Accounts (or Ubuntu Online
> Accounts if you're a Unity guy) where you sign into Google once to
> obtain an access token good for all Google services.
Hi all,
Yesterday I had to use my desktop, and Evolution, without a mouse for a
few hours.
I was only stymied by one problem: Is there some way to open links in
emails, using just a keyboard?
With a mouse I'd simply click on any links, but with a keyboard, what
seemed obvious/intuitive to me was
> > I was only stymied by one problem: Is there some way to open links in
> > emails, using just a keyboard?
>
> At least on my U.S. keyboard, the "pop-up menu" key (opposite the
> Windows logo key) brings up the context menu for the link where I can
> choose to "Open Link in Browser".
Yes, perfe
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