[Evolution] Problems
Hello, I am a new wanna be Ubuntu user. I have a problem and need to back up my email files. I don't know what folder to look in for the in and sent files. Can someone please tell me what folder to look in. My version of Ubuntu is version 7.xx. This is on a computer that has, as original OS, Vista. I forgot the password and can not get it back. My next thing is to re-install Vista, which I was told will wipe out the Ubuntu. I need to start over again for a couple of reasons. Please send your reply to: valhalla2...@comcast.net Thanks very much. Thomas ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Problems
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 00:27 -0700, thomas smith wrote: I have a problem and need to back up my email files. Hi, follow this http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_completely_backup_evolution.3F and some other answers in that page for more information. Hope that helps, Milan ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Viewing attachments in Evo?
I don't think I have received a pdf in the last 6 months that I can open inside Evolution. It's rather annoying, because I get many a day and I usually only need to open and review the content in them, not save them. It is part of an approval workflow process. I have also noticed that I cannot open new Microsoft formats either -- the xlsx types. I looked back at a few and they are all showing up as application/octet-stream, and they have appropriate file extensions. Nautilus fires up openoffice or evince to open either with no problem, so getting the association right in Nautilus does not fix the problem in Evolution. The files come from a very diverse sources, most of whom are likely using Outlook. Does anyone know why these are attachments are causing this problem? I feel certain that PDFs have worked in the past. Jim On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 12:05 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 17:31 +0200, Svante R Signell wrote: BTW: How to open the Nautilus file viewer from a terminal? I have forgotten the command. nautilus --browser When the file is attached as application/acrobat attachment or application/stream attachment I only get the option to save the file and the use an external viewer to actually look at the file. Where to enable the inside Evo viewing? Is related to mime.types and/or mailcap files?? MIME type handling is desktop-wide, not Evolution-specific. For application/acrobat attachments (which is not a valid MIME type, see [1]), save the file to disk and teach Nautilus how to handle it. Your choice of application will then be listed in Evolution. application/stream, on the other hand, is a generic description for unknown MIME types. You probably don't want to associate an application for that type since it could be anything. Evolution -should- attempt to guess the type from the attachment's filename extension (e.g. .pdf), but if it lacks even that then your only choice it to save it to disk. [1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/ Matthew Barnes ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- James D. McKean Pratt Corporation Director Information Technology 317-524-3334 jmck...@prattcorp.com http://www.prattcorp.com ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] How Evolution formats top-post replies
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 21:29 -0700, timzak wrote: I still must manually hit enter a couple of times, then move cursor back up to create space for my reply. You don't in fact have to do that. You just think you do. In case my explanation was not thorough, here is a typical top post reply. I placed a * where Evolution places the cursor in such emails. Right. And if you just started typing at that point, all of your text would be inserted *before* the On Sat, As you type, you will continue to be typing before that text and when you are done typing your own text, your final return will put that On Sat... line on it's own line. More returns would insert more blank lines. Try it. It would be preferable if the cursor was placed on the line above. Probably, but not technically necessary. Otherwise, one must go through the motions described above for each email one replies to. Not *must*, but can. *On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 17:21 -0400, John Smith wrote: Hey, I haven't forgotten you. I just got back from my errands and will try to finish up by Sunday. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Duplicate e-mails
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 08:54 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:43 +0530, ritz wrote: Hi On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 23:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 11:19 +1000, Gerald wrote: hi to all, How can I remove duplicate e-mails? Thanks in advance for any replies. evolution-remove-duplicate ? I assume you mean evolution-remove-duplicates (plural) which is an optional external plugin. poc ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/evolution/ depending on which version of evo you're running you might have to slightly modify the configure script to check for newer versions to get it to complete configuration. ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] GAL lookups inaccurate
Evo 2.26.1 evolution-exchange 2.26.0-0ubuntu3 Recently (last couple of months) addressing of Distribution Groups from GAL/AD is producing incomplete lists of group members. If I ignore autocomplete and type the entire dist. group email address, everything is OK. Sometimes the autocomplete dropdown offers two versions of an distribution group's email address, one that seems to be resolving to the group's address, and another that resolves to a list of the group members. The former works, the latter is an incomplete list of members. Is this a known regression or a problem with my installation? Nothing has changed in AD that I know of. Work-arounds or configuration suggestions? -- Art Alexion Resources for Human Development, Inc. 215-951-0300 x3075 4700 Wissahickon Ave. a...@rhd.org Philadelphia, PA 19144 267-615-3172 ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] How Evolution formats top-post replies
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 21:29 -0700, timzak wrote: In case my explanation was not thorough, here is a typical top post reply. I placed a * where Evolution places the cursor in such emails. It would be preferable if the cursor was placed on the line above. Otherwise, one must go through the motions described above for each email one replies to. Evo doesn't have a setting for top-posting. What you describe is the default layout. A year or two ago I objected that this encouraged top-posting (which I detest on mailing lists but don't mind elsewhere). It was explained to me that the idea is to encourage people to *edit* the quoted text instead of just lumping it all into the reply. poc ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] How Evolution formats top-post replies
Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 21:29 -0700, timzak wrote: I still must manually hit enter a couple of times, then move cursor back up to create space for my reply. You don't in fact have to do that. You just think you do. Good points, Brian. You're absolutely right. Evo is just the first email client I've used that does this, so it threw me for a mental loop. It's amazing how our minds become conditioned in these ways. Thanks! Tim -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-Evolution-formats-top-post-replies-tp24158832p24167217.html Sent from the Gnome Evolution - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Viewing attachments in Evo?
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 07:43 -0400, Jim McKean wrote: I don't think I have received a pdf in the last 6 months that I can open inside Evolution. It's rather annoying, because I get many a day and I usually only need to open and review the content in them, not save them. It is part of an approval workflow process. It would help if you specified the Evolution version you're running, as attachment handling underwent a major rewrite between 2.26 and 2.27. Matthew Barnes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] How Evolution formats top-post replies
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 21:29 -0700, timzak wrote: In case my explanation was not thorough, here is a typical top post reply. I placed a * where Evolution places the cursor in such emails. It would be preferable if the cursor was placed on the line above. Otherwise, one must go through the motions described above for each email one replies to. Evo doesn't have a setting for top-posting. What you describe is the default layout. A year or two ago I objected that this encouraged top-posting (which I detest on mailing lists but don't mind elsewhere). It was explained to me that the idea is to encourage people to *edit* the quoted text instead of just lumping it all into the reply. poc I'm not in front of my computer with Evo on it at the moment, but there is a setting somewhere in Evo with a checkbox that says something to the effect: Place replies below quoted text. In effect, if you UNcheck this box, aren't you telling Evolution that you wish to top-post? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-Evolution-formats-top-post-replies-tp24158832p24167339.html Sent from the Gnome Evolution - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] How Evolution formats top-post replies
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 08:41 -0700, timzak wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 21:29 -0700, timzak wrote: In case my explanation was not thorough, here is a typical top post reply. I placed a * where Evolution places the cursor in such emails. It would be preferable if the cursor was placed on the line above. Otherwise, one must go through the motions described above for each email one replies to. Evo doesn't have a setting for top-posting. What you describe is the default layout. A year or two ago I objected that this encouraged top-posting (which I detest on mailing lists but don't mind elsewhere). It was explained to me that the idea is to encourage people to *edit* the quoted text instead of just lumping it all into the reply. poc I'm not in front of my computer with Evo on it at the moment, but there is a setting somewhere in Evo with a checkbox that says something to the effect: Place replies below quoted text. In effect, if you UNcheck this box, aren't you telling Evolution that you wish to top-post? That setting was introduced in response to my objection. However it's not checked by default, and as I said according to the developers the unchecked position is not meant to indicate top-posting but to encourage you to edit the quoted material. You can see the exchange at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535791 and also http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2008-May/msg00206.html I do have that setting checked, though :-) poc ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] Anoying contact name choices
Hi, right now i have all my contacts as text files, and i decided to add them to evo via the contact tools available. however, the choices are VERY anoying. I'm spanish, and in spain, people's names are typically sorted by what could be considered in the US as the middle name. For example, a person who's full name is: name1 name2 name3 ... nameN would be typically sorted under name2 as: name2 name3 ... nameN, name1. (Typically there are only 3 names, but not always) As you can understand, this is very anoying since i dont always know off the top of my head what the lesser-known last name of a person is. Is there any prospect of change on how names are filed/viewed in evo? Thanks! _ More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Anoying contact name choices
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:57 +0200, Eduard Bardaji Puig wrote: Hi, right now i have all my contacts as text files, and i decided to add them to evo via the contact tools available. however, the choices are VERY anoying. I'm spanish, and in spain, people's names are typically sorted by what could be considered in the US as the middle name. For example, a person who's full name is: name1 name2 name3 ... nameN would be typically sorted under name2 as: name2 name3 ... nameN, name1. (Typically there are only 3 names, but not always) As you can understand, this is very anoying since i dont always know off the top of my head what the lesser-known last name of a person is. Is there any prospect of change on how names are filed/viewed in evo? Unless *all* of your contacts are going to follow the same convention, there's no general rule that will always work. The Full Name field is unformatted text so Evo can't know what is the given name, the father's family name, the mother's family name, an extra given name, etc. etc. The only way this could be done would be to encode the various parts of the name as explicit fields, but that's not the schema in use and I don't know how easy it would be to change. Parsing names is hard in general. For example, in María del Pilar Rodríguez de García there are two family names and one given name, but in Pedro Pérez Montilla there is one given name and two family names, and in José Pablo Jiménez two given names and one family name. It's a bit much to expect Evo to recognize all these cases. Meanwhile, since your contacts are in text files, why don't you use the extensive text manipulation tools on Linux to get them into the form you want? poc ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Viewing attachments in Evo?
Whoops, sorry. 2.24.3 on on an Ubuntu netbook mix -- 2.6.27-11-eeepc. j On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:06 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 07:43 -0400, Jim McKean wrote: I don't think I have received a pdf in the last 6 months that I can open inside Evolution. It's rather annoying, because I get many a day and I usually only need to open and review the content in them, not save them. It is part of an approval workflow process. It would help if you specified the Evolution version you're running, as attachment handling underwent a major rewrite between 2.26 and 2.27. Matthew Barnes ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- James D. McKean Pratt Corporation Director Information Technology 317-524-3334 jmck...@prattcorp.com http://www.prattcorp.com ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
