Hi Pete, Thanks for your comments, yes - you are right. I use only POP accounts.
KDE - can I install it ontop of GNOME? If I don't like it, can I go back? Is there a list of extra's i provides? How to install? Yes, I am one of those Laymen, please talks down to me... Cheers Alex On Sun, 2020-08-16 at 14:45 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
