> > 3) The people in the forum, are trying to help (from my own experience) > , but - they are unable to get down to our "Layman" level naturally, so > when you pose a question, be specific and say where you are at this > stage.
It's not that people have a problem "getting down" to a layman level - it's that sometimes it's very difficult to determine a person's ability: people get (very) offended by talking down to them as much as people complain about making it too difficult to understand. > 4) Linux is a very open OS and offers many configuration options, which > for beginners like us makes it confusing. Most of those options can > only be executed through command line / Terminal commands, unlike the > GUI you and I are used to. No, most people can deal with Linux without ever going near the command line. The level of configurability is to some extent down to the desktop you use - Gnome tries to keep things relatively uncluttered and not all configuration options are available through the user interface; KDE has a reputation for being ultra configurable, where all aspects of the application can be configured somewhere. They're different that's all. Evolution is a Gnome application and so not everything can be done through the GUI - but things that can't are usually obscure or legacy configurations - in day to day use you don't need the command line. > > 1) I am used to Outlook in Windows. I created a backup and imported it > into Evolution - there is an Import option - under the File menu > option. > 2) Evolution is a very powerful package. All my folders were imported > from Outlook. > 3) Evolution installs with a UNIFIED inbox by default. All my many > email accounts are comming into ONE Inbox We need to unpack this statement. The way that Evolution deals with the mail is dependent on the account type. IMAP and other types where the mail is stored in a place that Evolution has no direct control over have separate inboxes with each account having it's own folder tree in the left hand pane. Accounts were Evolution downloads mail to it's own folders and where Evolution has direct control over the storage locations are "unified" into one inbox under "On this Computer". This primarily means POP3 accounts. So all the POP3 accounts will download their mail into the local Inbox; IMAP accounts will each have their own folder. So Evolution doesn't use a single Inbox by default, but it looks that way if you only ever use POP. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
