Re: [Evolution] A reminder of a "plan B" mailing list

2022-11-16 Thread Steve Litt
on discourse? SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://m

[Evolution] A reminder of a "plan B" mailing list

2022-11-15 Thread Steve Litt
alt-evolut...@lists.troubleshooters.com Just in case something this drastic is needed, please save this email where you can easily look it up later. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm ___

Re: [Evolution] What do I do now? V2

2022-11-07 Thread Steve Litt
ontext - or just ignore it ;) So let me get this straight. Because of your expectations that everybody uses a threaded view (I don't), you don't include context. Is it really that difficult to include quoted context for just the info you put in your reply? SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book:

Re: [Evolution] Have I pushed Evolution beyond where it is designed to go?

2022-11-05 Thread Steve Litt
the setup I've enjoyed for ten years, on three different distros. >Clearly it is doing fine on the VM. Then it should be pretty easy to exploit the differences between the metal version and the VM version to figure out the root cause of the metal version's problem. SteveT Steve Litt Summer

Re: [Evolution] Have I pushed Evolution beyond where it is designed to go?

2022-11-05 Thread Steve Litt
ws-Mail, no hassle. If and when the mailing list gets resolved, I'll switch back to Evolution, no hassle. An email client might be a good place to store four figures of emails, but beyond that, in my opinion, a local Dovecot server is the way to go. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving i

Re: [Evolution] What do I do now? V2

2022-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
, I won't be on Discourse, so I'll never hear about it. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your lis

[Evolution] Another new mailing list

2022-10-27 Thread Steve Litt
...@lists.troubleshooters.com To post, send your post to alt-evolut...@lists.troubleshooters.com Like I said, this is a plan B, but it's beginning to look like we may need a plan B, so please save this email where you can easily look it up later. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving

Re: [Evolution] New mailing list

2022-10-24 Thread Steve Litt
age, this happened: : 173.255.221.194 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 500 Your account is bouncing. Please visit the web site to unbounce your account. ==== SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving i

Re: [Evolution] Discourse and the situation for Mailman lists hosted by Gnome.org

2022-10-24 Thread Steve Litt
e lecture on volunteering? You have no dog in this fight. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your lis

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-10-24 Thread Steve Litt
Patrick O'Callaghan said on Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:40:36 +0100 >On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 20:04 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> How many members does this list have? If it's less than 100, we can >> use >> the free version of groups.io. > >As of right now, there are

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
know if >there's a cost involved, but I would be willing to contribute if we >move there. How many members does this list have? If it's less than 100, we can use the free version of groups.io. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troublesho

Re: [Evolution] Discourse -- Insufficient Trust Level

2022-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list said on Fri, 21 Oct 2022 18:52:55 +0200 >On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 12:35 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> The fountain of youth. > >If that works, I'll sign up again. Getting rid of my reading glasses >would be a good start. In a very old photo I

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
n't know if >there's a cost involved, but I would be willing to contribute if we >move there. I will too, ten USD per year. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm __

Re: [Evolution] What now?

2022-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
it isn't supported by the Gnome project. Judging from the reactions here, I disagree. I'd subscribe to such a list in a heartbeat. Absent such an mailing list, I'd probably need to go back to Claws-Mail. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.

Re: [Evolution] Discourse -- Insufficient Trust Level

2022-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
at Level 0, which is heavily restricted "for safety >– both theirs and yours". The fountain of youth. With badges and levels, I'm a 12 year old Boy Scout again! SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troublesh

Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Sorin Srbu via evolution-list said on Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:50:23 + >Ah, seems like Discourse closes topics after fourteen days with no >traffic. Might this be a problem when revisiting the same topic but >later? Yes. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Thriving in To

Re: [Evolution] More info on my intermittent failure of messages to mark themselves as read

2022-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
Steve Litt said on Thu, 08 Sep 2022 07:31:12 -0400 I'm taking the abnormal step of top-posting because the old material is for reference only; I'm not referring to any specific material in the prior post... While we still have a mailing list let me tell you what I've discovered about

Re: [Evolution] What do I do now?

2022-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
Matt Connell said on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 12:33:56 -0400 >On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 11:38 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> Could somebody with space, bandwidth and tech knowledge please set >> up an Evolution mailing list that has nothing with Gnome? I know >> that a $100/year account

[Evolution] What do I do now?

2022-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I just received the dreaded message that this mailing list will vanish at the end of October 2022. They blame it on python2 deprecation and "major burden in managing lists spam", which sounds like the hollowest ever excuse to me. Nobody else is dropping their mailing lists because of

Re: [Evolution] weird bug: mismatch between the message list and preview pane

2022-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 2022-10-08 at 15:57 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via evolution-list wrote: > Dnia  8.10.2022 o godz. 02:31:32 Steve Litt pisze: > > > > Or you could do what I do and install Dovecot IMAP server on your computer, > > and > > use > > fetchmail to grab from Yahoo

Re: [Evolution] weird bug: mismatch between the message list and preview pane

2022-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 2022-10-08 at 00:28 +0200, Francesco Porro via evolution-list wrote: > 4) I have the suspect that this bug is not dependent to the > distribution of Evolution mail (native vs flatpak) but instead it could > depend to the Imap implementation made by Yahoo which, I guess, is not > strictly

Re: [Evolution] Can't open URLs anymore

2022-09-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 22:10 +0100, Evolution List Owner wrote: > On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 12:17 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Just today for the first time, when I click a URL link in the body of > > a message I > > receive, I get error: "Could not open the link: Failed to

[Evolution] Can't open URLs anymore

2022-09-26 Thread Steve Litt
Just today for the first time, when I click a URL link in the body of a message I receive, I get error: "Could not open the link: Failed to execute child process "/usr/libexec/gio-launch-desktop" (No such file or directory). I checked, and it's true that there's no

Re: [Evolution] Reading emails and threading

2022-09-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 09:51 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > Threading has nothing to do with including quoted messages in > > replies, either directly or as attachments. That's something else > > entirely. You can do that if you want, but it's not threading. > > This! > > Threading is

Re: [Evolution] New button no longer works

2022-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 06:59 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 13:11 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > How do I get back my New button functionality? > > Hi, > I guess your distro updated glib (sometimes called glib2) under the > ho

[Evolution] New button no longer works

2022-09-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, For the couple months I've been using Evolution, whenever I wanted to create a new email, I clicked the "New" button on the tool bar to create a blank email form, which I filled in with the subject, recipient and message. Then, yesterday, clicking the New button did nothing except make

Re: [Evolution] More info on my intermittent failure of messages to mark themselves as read

2022-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 2022-09-09 at 07:54 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 07:31 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Given this new info, any ideas for either a root cause or diagnostic > > tests I can perform? > > Hi, > by any chance, did you overloo

[Evolution] More info on my intermittent failure of messages to mark themselves as read

2022-09-08 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I think this problem has several root causes, any one of which can cause it. First, there's a difference between the light blue background on an email when you first select a folder, and the dark blue background when you click on that message. I think I need to click on it in order to

Re: [Evolution] can I programmatically add things to vfolders.xml?

2022-09-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 11:00 +0200, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > Hi, > > many of my mails contain support case numbers in a fixed format. > > I am always defining a virtual folder for each new support case > but I want to automate this. > > So - if I write a script which adds a new entry to

Re: [Evolution] Annoyance: Intermittently messages refuse to categorize themselves as read

2022-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 2022-08-23 at 09:23 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 22:21 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > When I read new email, sometimes the earliest of the unread messages > > keeps calling itself unread even after I've looked at it. > >  

[Evolution] Annoyance: Intermittently messages refuse to categorize themselves as read

2022-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I haven't found a workaround for this yet. When I read new email, sometimes the earliest of the unread messages keeps calling itself unread even after I've looked at it. This happens even when I stay reading it for over 2 seconds (or even 8 seconds, and my read time config is whay under

[Evolution] Getting just the right experience

2022-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm writing this for any newbies like me who want to configure Evolution to suit their taste... I found a few things less than perfect: 1) Unread message markers appeared only in INBOX, no other folders 2) Those annoying "new mail" graphics at the upper right of my screen 3) It took

Re: [Evolution] Seeing subfolders in searches?

2022-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 2022-07-20 at 07:43 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list wrote: > Hi, > > right click in the "From, Subject, Date..." bar -> Add a Column... -> > left click and hold "Location" to move it where you want it in the > "From, Subject, Date..." bar. > > To get rid of it right click in the

Re: [Evolution] How do I make my own hotkeys?

2022-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 12:00 -0400, George Reeke wrote: > On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 04:17 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Thanks Pete. I indeed found the deleted messages in my Trash folder, > > but there was no way I could see to undelete them via a left click on > >

[Evolution] Seeing subfolders in searches?

2022-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I couldn't find the answer to this in the Evolution help system or on the Internet... I performed a search on a whole folder tree. The results didn't indicate which subfolder each message resided in. How do I enable a view to show me the exact subfolder each message is in? Thanks,

[Evolution] How to change the font of message list and how do I prefer text mail

2022-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi everyone, I just switched to Evolution last night and am still having growing pains. My vision is so bad I need to set my message font at 13 point, so I need all the screen real estate I can get. So far I removed the status bar, the tool bar, and the todo bar. When I get an HTML email, its

Re: [Evolution] How do I make my own hotkeys?

2022-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 11:48 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 03:17 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > See "Help  Contents  Common Other Questions and Problems  > > > Customizing tool bar and menu items". > > > > Thanks Andre! U

Re: [Evolution] How do I make my own hotkeys?

2022-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 09:10 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > Thanks Andre. View=>Show Undeleted Messages in that folder failed > > to > > show the undeleted messages. > > > It depends on how you have set up deleting to behave. If you have set > a > real folder to use as a trash, then the messages

Re: [Evolution] How do I make my own hotkeys?

2022-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 03:17 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Thanks Andre! Using your instructions I was able to use "n" as the > hotkey for next email instead of Ctrl+PgDn, and "p" for previous > email > instead of Ctrl+PgUp. However, the list didn't scroll wit

Re: [Evolution] How do I make my own hotkeys?

2022-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 08:56 +0200, Andre Klapper via evolution-list wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 02:38 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > I'm in the process of switching to Evolution. I'd like to create my > > own > > set of hotkeys. For instance, when I'm in the

[Evolution] How do I make my own hotkeys?

2022-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm in the process of switching to Evolution. I'd like to create my own set of hotkeys. For instance, when I'm in the message list, I'd like to press the letter "d" to delete the currently highlighted message. I'd like to press "n" to move the highlight to the next message, and "p" to