On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 23:22, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > a) signatures: i am used to the way of 1.0.8 where i could point to my > > signature file and it gets used. with the new evolution i dont have such > > an option and get pointed to the evolution editor to create a new one. > > please make it possible again to point to a file instead. > > We fought for this, but were shot down by management.
ahh sad i was really used to that. after fiddling around more clearly with the preferences i found some 'solutions' that may suit my needs and that i can live with. but the first time presenter where you can choose the signature was horrible. after i made myself halfway comfortable with the new preferences stuff i found the signature section which was more clear. by the way. in the mailserver editor, you have the possibility to ADD a signature i played 10 mins and more to try to REMOVE signatures again. once again i found out about it after i investigated more. a tip: it would be good when doing an 'add signature' and you cancel the signature editor that the ADDED signature WONT get added at all since i canceled it. > > b) reading new mails: i got horrified that 'n' doesn't work anymore. it > > got replaced by pressing [ or ] i am using a german keyboard and not a > > US keyboard so i need to press ALT-GR + 8 or ALT-GR + 9 to either read > > new mails or not. i am not sure if this is changable with exporting LANG > > but i prefer using english native language AS IS together with a german > > keyboard layout. > > Again, decision by management. Michael Zucchi and I were happy with 'm' > and 'p', but since Outlook converts are what pay us money, Evolution was > changed to mimic Outlook's functionality which uses alphebtic keys for > searching which meant that we had to use ',' and '.' or '[' and ']' > (both sets work). ahh cool, ',' and '.' is ok for me, new to use but i think i will get used to it. please don't think about removing it otherwise i get hard times with threaded new messages and pressing ALT-GR + x all the time. > > c) index files. > > > > 394240 Sep 22 22:57 mbox.ibex.index > > 397556 Sep 22 22:57 mbox.ibex.index.data > > > > create a mbox file and try copying 8000-10000 emails into that, you get > > a 40-50 mb mbox file. now delete as many mails until 500 emails remain, > > the mbox file decreases to e.g. 5 mb but the index files are keeping > > their large size AND increases by every new added message > > I'll let Michael Zucchi answer this. As far as I know, they do in fact > shrink - but maybe it's a lazy-shrink or something. > > besides, those files are only 400k, not exactly "large" when compared to > a 50MG mbox. no, it was just an example telling you what files i was refering to. > > d) addressbook > > > > same as c) > > The addressbook doesn't have ibex files as far as I'm aware. no, i am generally speaking about the addressbook.db file not the ibex file. e.g. add 100 addresses and remove them all again. the size of that file remains in takt, when adding new addresses the file enlargens. -- Name....: Ali Akcaagac Status..: Student Of Computer & Economic Science E-Mail..: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW.....: http://www.fh-wilhelmshaven.de/~akcaagaa _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
