Oh! Forgot the 4th gotcha I ran into.
All my calendar entries are now showing up in their GMT/UCT time, not local time. :-P They were correct before the upgrade. Mike On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 09:48 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > Hey all! > > I recently upgraded my system from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 and have been > having some problems with Evolution since. This would have been an > upgrade to Evolution from 2.28.3-1.fc12 to 2.30.2-1.fc13. > > First... What happen to the PGP "Remember password for remainder of > session option" when I enter my PGP/GPG password? This is a real pain, > since I now have to enter my password each time I send out an E-Mail. I > know I can now hear people start to type, but it's a security risk to > remember those passwords. Actually it's not. It's a security risk to > force someone to enter it each time. The risk of someone attempting to > shoulder surf me is orders of magnitude higher that someone having > broken into my system and how can steal that password out of memory and > yet who can not obtain it through easier means, such as keyboard > sniffing. I sign everything as a matter of personal policy (and we can > leave that philosophical debate to another time) and this exposes my > password to keyboard sniffing and shoulder surfing each time I send a > message. That increases the security risk. > > Next... Evolution has gotten really flakey wrt selecting my proper > account for reply and including a cc to myself. Now it's been real > flakey about including my cc to self for quite a few revision (probably > going back several Fedora clicks to maybe F9 or earlier). Even though > each and every one of my dozen or so accounts has "Always carbon copy > (cc) to" selected and the proper E-Mail address entered into the field, > lots of times it had no cc when I do a reply or reply-all. For a while, > I was thinking it was failing to behave properly whenever there was a > "Reply-to:" header in the message but this version has gotten much worse > about this problem and lots of times (but not always) it will fail to > add the proper cc even though there's no Reply-to header. It is always > consistent for any given message. Reply to one that works, and every > reply will work. Reply to one that fails, and it always fails. So it > seems to be something about the message being replied to that triggers > this bug. > > Finally, and this did just show up with this upgrade, it's often picking > the wrong account when I create a new message or reply to an old > message. As often as not, it's picking one of my "inactive" accounts I > have just as a mailbox placeholder. It's not picking the account for I > currently have a mailbox open (the old behavior) and it's not picking my > active default account or even an active account at all. Now, this one > is NOT consistent. It may fail once on a given message and then I go > examine an other mailbox and come back to that message and then it will > work properly. Weird. Generally, when it grabs the wrong mailbox, it > also does not fill in the Cc field with anything either. When it's > wrong, it's also grabbing this one particular (inactive) account, as if > it was set as the default. I haven't seen it switch to another (active) > account by mistake. I can even be IN my default account and have it > guess wrong and grab this other one. > > I can manually select the proper account and the cc (and my signature) > are filled in correctly. So, it seems to be just guessing wrong on > grabbing the proper account. > > Anyone have any thoughts on this before I file a bugzilla report on > them? > > Regards, > Mike -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | [email protected] /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0x674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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