Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 12:36 -0500, dave boland wrote: > Oh my!!  I just used Web Mail and see that my ISP has been purging the > emails, but they are going to try to get them back. As I said, "purging" as in expunging deleted emails, or "purging" as in arbitrarily removing emails older than a cert

Re: [Evolution] Fwd: Mail in Evolution disappearing - mystery deepens

2015-12-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I guess I'm not really sure what your "fat, dumb and happy" mode was > > before, and how Evolution, or a new version of Evolution?, has changed > > things so you're not in that mode any longer...? > > I did not pay attention to archiving because I thought everything was > copied to my hard dr

[Evolution] Remote content warning box

2015-12-03 Thread Pete Biggs
On Evolution 3.18.2 In 3.18 there was introduced a box that appears at the top of the message to warn you about remote content not being downloaded. I applaud the motives behind such a thing, but personally I find its current incarnation too intrusive. It's almost as big as the headers and pushe

Re: [Evolution] Using Evolution with Exchange

2015-12-04 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 00:00 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 14:41 -0500, Michael Wenyon wrote: > > I am on Debian Jessie. Should I be able to use an Exchange server by > > setting it up in Gnome Online Accounts, or do I need to install other > > packages first? > > GOA is

Re: [Evolution] Using Evolution with Exchange

2015-12-04 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > > You can do Exchange accounts through GoA as well.  I've never tried > > it, > > but Exchange is listed in the available account types. > > Interesting. Is that because Google is supporting it or because the > tool is misnamed? > It's nothing to do with Google - it's 'Gnome on-line Acc

Re: [Evolution] Evolution unusable after update from 3.8 to 3.18

2015-12-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> just switch my system from fedora 19 to fedora 23, so I updated my > evolution from 3.8 to 3.18 basically. > Importing evolution settings from an backup worked fine as far as I can > see. What sort of account are you talking about?  POP, IMAP, EWS, Gmail, ... > > But evolution is extremly slo

Re: [Evolution] Evolution unusable after update from 3.8 to 3.18

2015-12-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > What sort of account are you talking about?  POP, IMAP, EWS, Gmail, ... > Personal IMAP setup with dovecot. I use dovecot as well - I don't have 6000 folders, but I have a couple of hundred, most of them unsubscribed, and I don't see any problems. > > > > > The mailbox is a little special:

Re: [Evolution] email colours

2015-12-30 Thread Pete Biggs
> I just installed Evolution 3.10.4 in Elementary linux, and found that > my emails have a black background with dark grey text. I can change > it for outgoing emails, but not emails in my inbox, which have the > same background/text colour combination (very hard to read for us old > farts), Seems

Re: [Evolution] email colours

2016-01-01 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2016-01-01 at 18:21 +0100, Butrus Damaskus wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:20 PM, John Lauterbach .net> wrote: > > Hello Ian: > > > > Please note that 3.10.4 is an obsolete version of evolution.  > > Serious users are using much newer versions. > > > > > Debian Wheezy still has 3.4.

Re: [Evolution] How to restore the question if I want lose or maintain the html format of message

2016-01-10 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 00:49 +0100, Dario Lesca wrote: > I have accidentally flag "do not ask me again" on the panel asking if I > want lose or maintain the html format of message. > > How to do restore the request of this question? I presume you are using Evolution 3.18 (please ALWAYS say what ve

Re: [Evolution] Notification on new e-mail

2016-01-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I just started using Evolution and haven't found a way to make it pop up > a notification whenever new e-mails are received. Mail Notification is > no longer an option since it has been unmaintained since 2008 and does > not work on my Linux Mint 17.3 64-bit install. Are there any > alternati

Re: [Evolution] Notification on new e-mail

2016-01-11 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 12:31 +0100, ThePsionic wrote: > Whoops, sorry. I'm using Evolution 3.10.4 on the Cinnamon desktop of > Linux Mint 17.3 64-bit. (Please don't top post on this mailing list) Evolution uses the Gnome desktop notification system for new mail alerts.  Some configuration is possi

Re: [Evolution] Notification on new e-mail

2016-01-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> Ah, I downloaded the version I have from Mint's software manager, which > currently hosts 3.10. Checking out Ubuntu's package listings (since Mint > is based off Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) it says that this is the latest version > available for 14.04 and that 3.18.x isn't supported until Xenial > (16.04)

Re: [Evolution] Notification on new e-mail

2016-01-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> I don't really care for LTS, it's just that Mint happens to be built on > top of Ubuntu 14.04, and I prefer it over normal Ubuntu. I tried > downloading the tarball from the official website, which said building > instructions would be in an INSTALL file, and then not providing the > file in the

Re: [Evolution] Evolution Does NOT Save Username & Password !

2016-01-12 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 23:02 -0700, Mahmoud Ramadan wrote: > Any Updates or ideas how to solve this issue ? > Yes, Patrick already told you, you need to ensure that Gnome keyring is running as that is what Evolution uses to store credentials.  Exactly how you do that is distro/desktop dependent and

Re: [Evolution] Problems after upgrade to 3.18

2016-01-12 Thread Pete Biggs
> > That Google page says that ClientLogin  is now no longer available.  It > says one should migrate to OAuth 2.0. I had hoped that using 3.18 of > evolution would do that. It does, but via Gnome-online-Accounts.  Provision the account using GoA, and Gmail will work - but not sure if using GoA

Re: [Evolution] Email composer butchering messages erratically

2016-01-15 Thread Pete Biggs
(Please don't use HTML format on this list - things are lost when it's converted to plain text, as below) On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 14:40 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Problems: > When deleting replied-to text, more text is deleted than highlighted, > generally all of the text marked replied-to. >

Re: [Evolution] Dialog Box "Turning HTML mode off will cause the text to lose all formatting"

2016-01-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> I'm using plain text as my default editing mode in the mail composer in > Evolution 3.16.5 on OpenSuse Leap 42.1. Every time I reply to an HTML > formatted message, it displays a dialog box: "Turning HTML mode off > will cause the text to lose all formatting. Do you want to continue?" > with two

Re: [Evolution] "Print selected text" option

2016-01-18 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 08:37 +0100, Andrea Vai wrote: > Hi, > Il giorno ven, 15/01/2016 alle 06.09 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams ha scritto: > > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 11:18 +0100, Andrea Vai wrote: > > > .0 does not offer an option to print only the selected  > > > text of an e-mail. Is it a bug, or a

Re: [Evolution] Google's blockage of Evolution with Gmail, and Web Presence of Evolution

2016-01-24 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 12:34 -0500, Nick Pontillo wrote: > Hey all, there are two things I'd like to propose/bring to attention. It would be good to know what version of Evolution you are using so we can put your comments in to historical context. > > First of all, Google is blocking Evolution fr

Re: [Evolution] Google's blockage of Evolution with Gmail, and Web Presence of Evolution

2016-01-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> My only request now would be > that the setup wizard tell the user about the online accounts in the > Gnome settings, as I didn't know about it and I think if I had done that > first then everything would have been totally smooth. The recent versions of Evolution do not have a specific Gnom

Re: [Evolution] Google's blockage of Evolution with Gmail, and Web Presence of Evolution

2016-01-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > You do not need to sign up to search the list archives either.  >  Messages from the Evolution list(s) are fully indexes and show up in > search engine results. > Unfortunately the results from the list archive don't show up in Google searches - for instance, if you search for "evolution gm

Re: [Evolution] Google's blockage of Evolution with Gmail, and Web Presence of Evolution

2016-01-25 Thread Pete Biggs
>  > > Unfortunately the results from the list archive don't show up in > > Google searches - for instance, if you search for "evolution gmail > > setup" (which would be a reasonable search term) the first page of > > results consist of Ubuntu / other distro specific forums and all > > refer to se

Re: [Evolution] control font size of Gnome applications within KDE4 on FreeBSD

2016-01-27 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I know from using it in the past (~2011) that for evolution I have to start > as well > the /usr/local/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon in background and in the > past I could control the font size of evolution and firefox with the > gnome-control-center. Well, nowadays all this starts fine but

Re: [Evolution] control font size of Gnome applications within KDE4 on FreeBSD

2016-01-27 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 07:00 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, January 28, 2016 a las 12:21:17AM +0000, Pete Biggs > escribió: > > > > > > > > > I know from using it in the past (~2011) that for evolution I > > > have to start as well &

Re: [Evolution] control font size of Gnome applications within KDE4 on FreeBSD

2016-01-28 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 09:25 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, January 28, 2016 a las 07:30:03AM +0000, Pete Biggs > escribió: > > > > > The font control for Gnome is now in 'gnome-tweak-tool'. > > > > > > Thanks for that hint. I ins

Re: [Evolution] Comparison of Evolution to Thunderbird

2016-02-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Still no idea about translating a paragraph "on the fly" though... > > eg: > > ce list la, cette discussion, c'est officiel. mais ou sont les > francophones qui engage? > > that is, can you highlight the above paragraph and translate it into > English without leaving Evolution? I'd hope fo

Re: [Evolution] Comparison of Evolution to Thunderbird

2016-02-01 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 14:33 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:53:29 +0200, Mark Elkins wrote: > > ce list la, cette discussion, c'est officiel. mais ou sont les > > francophones qui engage? > > Did you test the posted script? It seems to work for everything on your > desktop, bec

Re: [Evolution] Comparison of Evolution to Thunderbird

2016-02-01 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 14:04 +, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 14:33 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:53:29 +0200, Mark Elkins wrote: > > > ce list la, cette discussion, c'est officiel. mais ou sont les > > > francophones qui e

Re: [Evolution] calendar timeout? -

2016-02-02 Thread Pete Biggs
> > The fact that the CalDAV/CardDAV server is unreachable is not so > unlikely to happen to my experience. So I think,  contacts and calendar > entries should be saved locally in the case the server is unreachable, > and synced back later. > I think it's very easy to say that, but not so easy t

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 07:00 +0100, Stig Roar Wangberg wrote: > It seems like Evolution is up an running (even though it seldom sends my > emails). Another problem is signing and encrypting. Concerning the > latter, I don't know if my emails are encrypted with the receivers > public key, or mine. I

Re: [Evolution] calendar timeout? -

2016-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Run evolution-calendar-factory in a terminal with something like > >  CALDAV_DEBUG={all|message:body|message:header|message|items|attachme > > nt > > s} evolution-calendar-factory >& logfileMultiple options can be > > specified as a comma-separated list. > > I tried: > $ evolution-calendar-fa

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 12:41 +0100, Stig Roar Wangberg wrote: > I really don't understand why I can read a message if it's encrypted > with their public key. I shouldn't be able to do that. When I use gpg -r > ID -e , I can't read that gpg-file after. So am I encrypting my > emails in here with my o

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
> > OK.  The text of the message is not encrypted with a users key; the > > text of the message is encrypted using a symmetric key - the key for > > *that* method (the session key) is encrypted using public keys, and, > > the important bit, there can be multiple public key encryptions in one > > m

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-05 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 16:07 +0100, Stig Roar Wangberg wrote: > I mean, I've tried gpg --encrypt --sign --armor -r per...@email.com > name_of_file, but does it have to be an armor file?  If you are sending things by email, then use an armored file - it will make sure things get through all email sy

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-07 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > People tell me that they can't open the attachment (my signature comes > attached to my mails). I know it's not an Evo problem, but what advice > can I give them?  > You don't open the attachment - the PGP signature is meaningless without the message it's attached to: the point of the sig

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-08 Thread Pete Biggs
>   > > It puzzles me though, that after converting from SHA-1 to SHA-256, > Evolution still uses SHA-1. What can be the reason for that, you think? No it's not, your messages are signed using a SHA256 digest.  At the bottom of a signed/encrypted message in Evolution you will see a coloured bar

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> Yes of course. I understand that. I'm just curious what those dat-files > are. The sender didn't intentionally attach those files. Are they > generated by Evolution? He sent one encrypted letter (file.gpg) as an > attachment, but when I downloaded the attachment, there were two more, > i.e. atta

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> Thank you! I tried to open them, by the way, in gedit, but they were > empty. I'm just worried because I downloaded them. I really hope they're > not doing my computer any harm. The sender doesn't understand it either. > I'll look into it. > The bottom line is that malware on Linux is quite ra

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> There are a lot of info there, and I'm not quite sure what I'm looking > for. Both the attachments says 'ordinary text document' (translated from > Norwegian), and the third says PGP/Mime encrypted.  > So they are something that was attached before it was received and nothing to do with Evolut

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > OK, so I ran the file command, file attachment.dat, and got this > message: 'very short file (no magic)'. No 'strange' number or strings or > anything! Extremely educational answers from you, even though it's 'far > from Evolution'. Or is it. So 'no magic', 'ey?  The "magic" refers to the me

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Using the Ctr+U command, I got this info: > > --=-cAzVArTuBQDjGRJ48pLs > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-xXDXkoaX8HQyph0FZ2XF" > > > --=-xXDXkoaX8HQyph0FZ2XF > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > The other info I get, but these two must be

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> What about this, then? Does this say anything about why there's always > two .dat-files attached together with the encrypted attachment? > > --=-FBjrxYQ2/8R5tscH+TLU > Content-Type: application/pgp-encrypted; name="dat.asc" > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="dat.asc" > Content-Transfe

Re: [Evolution] Duplicated messages in search folders

2016-02-15 Thread Pete Biggs
> > You are right, each duplicated message appears once in my archive > folder (Archive/principal within IMAP) and once in the Trash.  I > usually archive messages with ctrl+alt+a.  Why are they being > duplicated in Trash? Because when you "move" a message it is often implemented as "copy+delet

Re: [Evolution] Duplicated messages in search folders

2016-02-15 Thread Pete Biggs
> I prefer to keep messages in Trash for some time in case I change my > mind.  Can Evolution be configured not to include messages in Trash in > my search folders?  Unless you have specifically changed the configuration, the Trash is not a real folder, it's virtual.  The deleted messages are sti

Re: [Evolution] Duplicated messages in search folders

2016-02-15 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 17:31 -0200, Jorge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Unless you have specifically changed the configuration, the Trash is > > not a real folder, it's virtual.  The deleted messages are still in > > their original fold

Re: [Evolution] How does evo determine when to base64 encode?

2016-02-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Here at work, I've recently had a msexchange account shoved down my throat, > and > I've noticed that, using evolution-ews, evolution almost always base64-encodes > the body of my messages.  Yet, if I send the same message via SMTP, it is not > encoded.  Can anyone explain this?  Is there an

Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.10 Frozen

2016-02-16 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 11:24 -0800, pequod wrote: > Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 2.8.6 64-bit But you don't say what version Evolution you are using. > > In Evolution Calendar, I removed (deleted) old appointments. All were  > successful except for the last two which is when Evolution froze locking 

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-21 Thread Pete Biggs
> > This is not the way it's supposed to work. If I don't check the > > public > > key is trusted, why should I believe a message signed with it? > > Simply > > picking up the key with the message is tantamount to doing nothing. > > I > > must either know the key beforehand (i.e. I have it in my k

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-21 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Just for the files: What more would I do to see Stig's signature as > valid for further mails ? You would need to sign it to say that you verify that you know that the signature belongs to him.  Which is not advisable if you don't know that for certain - since it creates faults in the web of

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-22 Thread Pete Biggs
> > the "Microsoft Infrastructure" uses S/MIME by default, which sends > certificates. Yes - S/MIME works by a "Trusted Third Party" issuing signed Email Certificates. The only verification done by someone like Comodo when they issue personal certificates is that the certificate is sent to the e

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-22 Thread Pete Biggs
It's probably best to start a new topic for unrelated questions - nobody will ever find this in amongst all those GPG emails. > Another thing I've noticed, is that I get two copies of sent letters > (replies) to the folder I'm sending from. It's enough with one copy, and > I don't understand why

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-22 Thread Pete Biggs
> > ... twice in inbox might come from those who reply to YOU and to the > > LIST. I don't. Do you see this here twice ? > > No, yours and other's messages only comes one. But the one I'm writing > now will come twice into my Inbox. > Is it just this list or is it all emails? If it's just this

Re: [Evolution] Evolution/GPG

2016-02-22 Thread Pete Biggs
> > This here was sent TO me and CCed to the list. If I'd REPLY TO ALL you'd > receive my answer twice ... > Not necessarily.  There is a list option to prevent getting double emails when you are directly sent a copy. P. ___ evolution-list mailing li

Re: [Evolution] Signing e-mails with gpg fails

2016-03-01 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I'm not sure why but I am currently unable to sign e-mails, I'm getting > the following error: > > Could not create message. > > Because "gpg: skipped "67449612": No secret key > gpg: signing failed: No secret key > ", you may need to select different mail options. In the a

Re: [Evolution] How can I limit the amount of cache evolution is using?

2016-03-03 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 14:57 +, Fabrice Triboix wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know if there is a setting I can use to tell evolution > what is the limit I want it to use for caching data. > > I just add one email account, and it already downloaded 1.2GB of data! > I still have 4 email ac

Re: [Evolution] How can I limit the amount of cache evolution is using?

2016-03-04 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > Then I re-created my email account. I could see initially it was > downloading a summary of all the messages, but now it seems it is > downloading every single message. The lower banner says "Retrieving > message '41785' in INBOX" and is just carrying on... I think it is > indeed downloadi

Re: [Evolution] How can I limit the amount of cache evolution is using?

2016-03-04 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 08:21 +, Fabrice Triboix wrote: > Got it! It was the "Apply filters to new messages in Inbox on this > server" setting. I unticked it, closed evolution, deleted the > "~/.cache/evolution/mail/XYZ/folders/" directory and restarted > evolution. Now it does not download messa

Re: [Evolution] How to deal with S/MIME signature where address differs from from address

2016-03-06 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > > the signature doesn't have much to do with the message headers, not > > with the From; evo shows at the very bottom who signed it. > Thinking about it, I find this strange, and actually would like to be > notified if the signature address differs from the From address. > > Maybe I do

Re: [Evolution] Combined from/to header

2016-03-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> This isn't really correct.  In the main preview window, I have columns > "From", "Subject", and "Received".  So now I click on "Sent" in the tree > at the left to look up something I sent, and those same columns remain > there, with my name in "From".  So I agree with Mellor that this is a > pro

Re: [Evolution] trouble using Evolution with Exchange

2016-03-08 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 11:01 -0500, Garrett Mitchener wrote: > I'm using Evolution on Fedora 23 to connect to an Exchange server > using EWS. In the Outlook Web interface, under Help, About, it > says Version: 14.3.248.2, and Mailbox server Microsoft Exchange > version: 14.3.123.0. As others have s

Re: [Evolution] Combined from/to header

2016-03-08 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 11:39 -0500, George Reeke wrote: > On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 16:31 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > In modern versions you can do View->Current View when in the Sent > > folder and click on "As Sent Folder".  If you don't have that

Re: [Evolution] trouble using Evolution with Exchange

2016-03-09 Thread Pete Biggs
Please don't top post on this list. On Wed, 2016-03-09 at 13:47 -0500, Garrett Mitchener wrote: > I've run evolution that way a couple of times, and also with > CAMEL_DEBUG=all. It generates a *lot* of detailed output, and I've > been sifting through it. What should I look for? Did you enable th

Re: [Evolution] multiple sender addresses per account?

2016-03-10 Thread Pete Biggs
> > coming from Thunderbird, is it possible to, in Evolution, set more than > one From: addresses for a given account? I'm using a catch-all inbound > mailbox for my domain but need different From: addresses to talk to > different services and mailing lists. So far, the only way I got this > to

Re: [Evolution] multiple sender addresses per account?

2016-03-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> I was pondering such a solution too. Then again: Thunderbird provides a > pretty simple feature here that allows for setting multiple > "identities" for one account that can be chosen through the "From:" > drop-down list, grouped by account (see [1]), so I wondered > whether something like that

Re: [Evolution] Gmail + Sent Messages to a local folder

2016-03-23 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Regarding Gmail: there isn't much to be said. Gmail stores all sent > > mail in the Sent Mail folder (of course Gmail doesn't actually use > > folders, it's really the Sent Mail label, but when accessing it via > > IMAP it appears as a folder). (Note that this will also happen if you > > use P

Re: [Evolution] Gmail + Sent Messages to a local folder

2016-03-24 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 14:48 +0100, Tom wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 23.03.2016, 09:33 + schrieb Pete Biggs:  > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regarding Gmail: there isn't much to be said. Gmail stores all sent > > > > mail in the Sent Mail f

Re: [Evolution] how to move mails and configs to a new machine

2016-03-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> I need to move my mails (several Gigas) and the different pieces of > configuration (accounts, filters, ..) to a new machine.  Clearly, > folder structure has to be preserved too.  Eventually everything has > to > work as before.  > > Which is the safer way to get that? > > Note > Old machine:

Re: [Evolution] how to move mails and configs to a new machine

2016-03-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > You can create a backup tar file from the 'File' menu ("Back up > > Evolution Data") and then restore it on the new machine. > doing so, do I transfer everything (accounts, filters, folder > structure)? Yes.  It should do.  It will probably work quite well as the Evolution versions are v

Re: [Evolution] Gmail + Sent Messages to a local folder

2016-03-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I'm sorry, I'm not really sure what you want or what you are having > > difficulty with. > ... no difficulty at all, but I would have liked to read some pros or > cons concerning Gmail sent messages = local folder vs. Gmail sent > messages = gmail.com server folder. The question is not one o

Re: [Evolution] how to move mails and configs to a new machine

2016-03-24 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 11:02 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > On 03/24/2016 10:42 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > I meant your Linux account.  But that's because you need to make sure > > nothing is using the filesystem when you move the data around - but you > > can'

Re: [Evolution] how to move mails and configs to a new machine

2016-03-24 Thread Pete Biggs
> about your rant: > > Actually Fedora has been installed with a user account. This is  my > home (real) desktop machine, I have been logging as root for years, > without any issue (at least not issues I am aware of). Is it really so > bad? I'm sorry to use LMGTFY, and it's not meant as a put do

Re: [Evolution] Change default "from" address with GMail (Gnome Online Account)

2016-04-10 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2016-04-10 at 07:23 +, Chris Black wrote: > I need to set the "From" address for a GMail account linked to > Evolution via Gnome Online Accounts.  Setting "Reply-to" isn't > enough, since people still accidentally end up saving and using the > "From" address anyway.  Gmail's web interfa

Re: [Evolution] Moved messages disappear from source, never show in destination

2016-04-12 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 10:09 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 00:40 +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > > > > > > them on the new folder as the standard method on IMAP is to copy, > > > then > > > delete the original (or IIRC to use an IMAPX primitive that does an > > > a

Re: [Evolution] Delete email (spam) without opening it

2016-05-08 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 18:53 +0200, Paul wrote: > Some spam contains images that I cant block. I assume its javascript. > I'm getting increasingly concerned about these image confirming my > email address to spammers. If you can't block an image, then the image is embedded in the email and no infor

Re: [Evolution] Ordering of folders when filtering

2016-05-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > Given folders x,y and z, when a rule moves a message from x to z it > will presumably meet the very same message it moved when it filters the > z folder. Is it ignored or processed again? First off, in general I only run filters on the INBOX of my mail accounts.  If you have lots of folde

Re: [Evolution] Mails Composed In HTML - Tab Spaces Result In New Lines

2016-05-12 Thread Pete Biggs
> An issue I have is that when composing mails in html and I do the > following : > > SUBJECT-SOMETHING > > ... it results in mails coming through as : > > SUBJECT > - > SOMETHING > > I am lost as to how to correct. What does the copy of the message in your sent folder look like? What does t

Re: [Evolution] Mails Composed In HTML - Tab Spaces Result In New Lines

2016-05-12 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > Connect to Exchange via EWS > I suspect that is at the root of the problems! (As in that it's an > Exchange thing, rather than an Evolution one.) Actually, I can confirm it is something to do with Exchange/EWS - sending through an IMAP/SMTP account, everything looks fine; sending through

Re: [Evolution] why Evolution email application unnecessarily prompts for passwords on random occasions.

2016-05-13 Thread Pete Biggs
On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 10:05 -0400, James R. Overstreet wrote: > Why is it that on random occasions Evolution email application will > start prompting for passwords on EVERY instance of both sending and > receiving emails. > > AND then just as suddenly as it started prompting for the passwords, it

Re: [Evolution] IMAP - Junk and Trash folder appear twice

2016-05-14 Thread Pete Biggs
On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 17:16 +0300, Prometheus wrote: > I am on Evolution 3.18.5.1 / Debian stretch - Gnome 3.20 > > On every IMAP mail account i have i get two times a Junk and a Trash > folder. The one is local and the other is the on-line folder, apart > from my hotmail account which has only th

Re: [Evolution] IMAP - Junk and Trash folder appear twice

2016-05-16 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 12:38 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 16:52 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > There is no option to use a real Junk folder so > > you'll just have to put up with there being two of them. > Hi, > the IMAP in the evolut

Re: [Evolution] IMAP - Junk and Trash folder appear twice

2016-05-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > > Does it enable the real Trash if it finds it on the server, or does > > it just populate the field and leave the option disabled? > Hi, > enables and uses it. For newly configured accounts only, already > created accounts are left unaffected. OK. > > I guess you'd like to see an

Re: [Evolution] IMAP - Junk and Trash folder appear twice

2016-05-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> From a users (interface) point of view, what is the (obviously annoying) > difference between seeing trash in an evolution-created virtual folder > or anywhere else, presuming that the "mark as deleted" method utilises > this alternative location instead ? It can't.  The whole point of the "mar

Re: [Evolution] IMAP - Junk and Trash folder appear twice

2016-05-16 Thread Pete Biggs
> > With a real trash the message is actually moved to the folder when it > > is deleted and it disappears completely from the original folder. >  ^^  > Can we be sure about that or how it's programmed ? For all I know IMAP > specification has neither a MOVE nor a DELETE co

Re: [Evolution] IMAP - Junk and Trash folder appear twice

2016-05-17 Thread Pete Biggs
> In particular for those whose mother-tongue isn't English: The RFCs are > not distinguishing between mailbox and folder, e.g. IMAP4 clients can > create, rename, and/or delete mailboxes (usually presented to the user > as folders) on the server, and copy messages between mailboxes. Multiple > ma

Re: [Evolution] User point of view on the attachment bar?

2016-05-18 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Does this change sound sane, from the user point of view? > Do you use the attachment bar at all? Personally, I don't use the attachment bar at the top of the message very much, virtually all the interaction I have with attachments is via the bottom attachment list.  But I think that is beca

Re: [Evolution] Option to not have self included in reply all?

2016-05-19 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 17:36 +, Reid, Jason I (347G) wrote: > Hello, is there an option or some way to not be automatically > included in every reply all?  It's a bit inconvenient to remove > myself from each occurrence and most email editors seem to have this > either as an option or default be

Re: [Evolution] Option to not have self included in reply all?

2016-05-20 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 17:40 +, Reid, Jason I (347G) wrote: > Oh very interesting!  I used an alias as my email in my preferences > but most everyone emails my listed email -- problem solved.  If > that's the case, is there a way to add aliases to an account? I suppose it's not really aliases,

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Pete Biggs
> What works: > Eamil. > What partially works: > Calander. I can see everything but when I try and create meeting in > the calendar, I get the following error: > Failed to open calendar 'Contacts : Birthdays & Anniversaries' > Contacts: > Doesn't work at all.  How did you create the account in Ev

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-25 Thread Pete Biggs
Sorry, I'm going to top post this. I have never had an issue with the performance of Gnome. I have never heard of a serious performance issue with Gnome other than with seriously underpowered machines.  I run Gnome under Fedora on a Core Duo laptop with 2Gb memory without too many problems. The O

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-26 Thread Pete Biggs
> > its still sluggish on the desktop though. > > On my first pass, what I tried was enabling egl in clutter and mesa > and any dependencies that needed it. > > No effect however.i'm starting to suspect the xfce window > manager. > xfce itself should not be a problem - the issue will be t

Re: [Evolution] Weird behaviour when receiving meeting requests

2016-05-26 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I'm subscribed to some of my colleagues' calendars, and sometimes when a > colleague sends me a meeting invitation, Evolution says it's found the > appointment in calendar 'my colleague'(see attachment). Not in my own > calendar. 'my colleague' is not even the same person who sent the > invit

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-26 Thread Pete Biggs
> > It isn't like subscribing/unsubscribing is some herculean task.  IMO it > is a courtesy, a grant of respect, to subscribe. > > If I see a message on a list saying please-reply-directly-I-cannot-be > -bothered-to-subscribe I ignore the message.  It is disrepectful, it is > saying please-go-ou

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-26 Thread Pete Biggs
> >  > Yes and no. It's true that the list is restricted to subscribers (I > wrongly said it wasn't), however at present posts from non-subscribers > are held for moderation without any immediate feedback to the poster. A question for the moderators: do you get many creationist nuts who mistake t

Re: [Evolution] List Moderators Misc [Was: Performance Issues]

2016-05-26 Thread Pete Biggs
> I do not recall ever seeing such a message.  And I have been subscribed > to this list, effectively, since the dawn of time. :) OK. I always wondered if there were some terminally confused people that got the wrong idea. > > > I for a long time anticipated someone freaking out about the name

Re: [Evolution] Performance Issues

2016-05-26 Thread Pete Biggs
> > Can I once again suggest that you use a Live Distro that has a full > > Gnome3 desktop to see how *your* machine performs in that environment. > > As we've been told, Gnome doesn't work very well and is horribly slow > > on *every* computer, but it would be a good test to see what the > > perf

Re: [Evolution] Importing Windows Pegasus files into Linux Evolution

2016-05-27 Thread Pete Biggs
On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 21:51 -0500, Glen wrote: > I am converting my wife's Windows 7 system to Fedora 23 in a dual boot > situation. Been trying to get  her off of windows for years now with > bring forced to w10 she is willing.  She currently uses Pegasus for her > e-mail and I wanted to move her

Re: [Evolution] Evolution-data-server backend address book driawing 100% CPU on one core

2016-05-28 Thread Pete Biggs
Please could you always put the Evolution version in your posts.  I know you've probably said what it is in one of your other posts, but it means having to go searching.  > Would like to know how to trouble shoot this one. > It happens every time I boot up. Evolution is EXTREMELY sluggish to > th

Re: [Evolution] Evolution-data-server backend address book drawing 100% CPU on one core

2016-05-31 Thread Pete Biggs
> > The account type is a corporate google account using gnome-online-accounts. > goa is setup properly using gnome-control-center. > > > > The executable taking up 100% of an entire core is: > /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory-subprocess --factory local > --bus-name > org.gnome.evo

Re: [Evolution] Cannot add an appointment to my calendar

2016-06-01 Thread Pete Biggs
On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 09:34 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 09:17 +0200, Jaaf wrote: > > > > I am starting using Evolution 3.18.5.2 and I cannot add any thing in > > the calendar as it is declared readonly. How can I change this? > > Thank you for help. > What are the

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