[Evolution] attached mail files seems to be corrupt
Hello: I'm using evolution 3.12.2 under Debian succesfully but when I receive mail or send mail with attached files like word documents or text documents this client corrupt this files and I'm not able to open it after download from evolution. I'm a c++ developer and I usually send my execcutables throught mail and evolution corrupt them. You have to know that before I send this executables I rename it to name.exe.txt. Regards. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Linux hardware question
[cut] The user concerned had the very same footer on his emails, but checked somewhere below his window. Or possibly below his computer screen. Or under his desk. I am not entirely clear on that. Peter, I always find it amusing reading your comments :). And it is a footer, so one could actually search on his/her feet ;) P.S. All of you forgot to trim citations... -- Patryk Benderz IT Specialist, Programmer +48 22 538 6292 ERSTE Securities Polska S.A. ul. Królewska 16 Warszawa 00-103 KRS 065121 NIP 526-10-27-638 REGON 011136053 Kapitał akcyjny: 15.500.000 złotych (w pełni opłacony) This message and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any publication, transmission or other use of the information by a person or entity other than the intended addressee is prohibited. If you receive this in error please contact the sender and delete the material. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions as a result of the transmission. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] attached mail files seems to be corrupt
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 07:53 +0100, Juan Francisco González Navarro wrote: I'm using evolution 3.12.2 under Debian succesfully but when I receive mail or send mail with attached files like word documents or text documents this client corrupt this files and I'm not able to open it after download from evolution. Hello, there had been done a fix for CRLF/LF re-encoding only yesterday, at a bug [1]. Maybe it's related to your issue. I'm a c++ developer and I usually send my execcutables throught mail and evolution corrupt them. You have to know that before I send this executables I rename it to name.exe.txt. This is not a good idea by any means, because: a) smart virus detectors do not depend on extensions, but check actual content; they are even that smart that they unzip files and check their inner content too; b) interpreting binary files as text files can break everything; some parts can be attached unencoded, then anything on the route between the sender and the receiver can modify the content, being it for CRLF or folding/wrapping. This is avoided when they know the part is application/octet-stream and when it is encoded in base64; c) if a mail application detects type based on the extension (it can be a fallback), then it can eventually run associated text editor on the attachment, which surely leads to issues. I believe an ideal solution is to provide a link to some public server with your uploaded executable, rather than attach it to an email, but I also agree that it's not always possible. In any case, it would be interesting to see whether changes for [1] fixed your issue too. Bye, Milan [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591811 ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] attached mail files seems to be corrupt
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 11:10 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: I believe an ideal solution is to provide a link to some public server with your uploaded executable, rather than attach it to an email, but I also agree that it's not always possible. Sending them in a password protected archive should do the job. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] [Bulk] Re: attached mail files seems to be corrupt
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 11:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Sending them in a password protected archive should do the job. Using openPGP for the attachments should be ok too. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] attached mail files seems to be corrupt
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 11:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 11:10 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: I believe an ideal solution is to provide a link to some public server with your uploaded executable, rather than attach it to an email, but I also agree that it's not always possible. Sending them in a password protected archive should do the job. My mail server rejects password protected archives - for the very reason that it can't scan the contents. Password protected zip files are (or at least were) a very common method of getting viruses and trojans past scanners: Super secret get rich fast scam: just open attached super secret file, password is IamGullible. P. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] attached mail files seems to be corrupt
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 10:46 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: Super secret get rich fast scam: just open attached super secret file, password is IamGullible. :D Ok, sounds plausible to rejects password protected archives, but openPGP encrypted attachments should be allowed. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] attached mail files seems to be corrupt
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 12:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 10:46 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: Super secret get rich fast scam: just open attached super secret file, password is IamGullible. :D Ok, sounds plausible to rejects password protected archives, but openPGP encrypted attachments should be allowed. Yes - because the encryption is unique to the recipient. P. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Evolution is dying
On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 09:47 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: 2. Automatically assign an account to a mailing list. Since 3.12.x - Edit-Preferences-Composer Preferences-Send Account tab, the same can be done in Folder Properties (to assign a send account for certain folder). Thank you :), I will set it up this week. On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 09:54 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 08:42 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: 1. The issue mentioned by this thread, the never ending requests to type the passwords. Do you have reasons to think this is related to POP support rather than a more general problem? The cause is an issue by the ISP servers, but the way Evolution's POP/SMTP implementation acts when the ISP's servers fail isn't good. Most, if not all other MUAs assume that the password is ok and don't ask for the password. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] attached mail files seems to be corrupt
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 11:28 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 12:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 10:46 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: Super secret get rich fast scam: just open attached super secret file, password is IamGullible. :D Ok, sounds plausible to rejects password protected archives, but openPGP encrypted attachments should be allowed. Yes - because the encryption is unique to the recipient. Super secret get rich fast scam: just decrypt attached super secret file, get the public key from http://pgp.mit.edu/ . ;) ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Posting to lists
On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 13:45 +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: Hi there, On Mon, 2 Jun 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: In a separate thread Milan mentioned that in Evo 3.12 you can specify a sending accounting for a folder. I'm still on 3.10 so I wasn't aware of this new feature. I'd like to propose an additional option: to specify a destination address for new posts from within the folder. I'm thinking of a folder used for a mailing list. If only Unread messages are shown and none are currently visible you have to search around to find the posting address. Obviously not all folders are associated with lists, but it's a common enough case to be useful. Or maybe that's what Milan was talking about and I didn't understand :-) I think you want what we Pine (and Alpine) users would call a 'role'. http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tech-notes/config.html#role-config Fair enough. poc ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Evolution is dying
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 12:32 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Do you have reasons to think this is related to POP support rather than a more general problem? The cause is an issue by the ISP servers, but the way Evolution's POP/SMTP implementation acts when the ISP's servers fail isn't good. But is this specific to POP? I.e. in the case of IMAP servers the policy is different? poc ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Evolution does not displaying Inbox content
On May 30, 2014 5:24:10 PM EDT, Jean Schurger j...@schurger.org wrote: On 2014-05-30 17:10, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 15:14 -0400, Jean Schurger wrote: I use evolution 3.12.2 with an account configured to receive emails with IMAP(+). WOW, THAT IS *ANCIENT* What do you mean ? That I had FridayAfter5 induced dyslexia and read your version string wrong. :) Retrieving emails in IMAP is quite common. Yes. My server is courier-imap 4.15, with emails stored in Maildir. Evolution is able to tell me when a new email arrive, but the 'Inbox' folder remains empty. You have a display filter applied, probably the Show drop-down, make sure that reads All Messages. No kidding ? Seriously, i would'nt post here before having checked that. Ok, but people do it all the time. It is the second most common question here. And I've done it myself; it is a bit of UI it is easy to trigger accidentally. Is there a some way to debug the IMAP exchange from evolution. I can considere disabling TLS/SSL server-side and sniff the trafic to check if evolution realy get info about the INBOX. I'm on my phone so I don't have the link - but yes. You can run the app with environment variable[s] set which will display the entire client/server conversation. But if you are getting new-mail notification I wouldn't suspect the account configuration but rather a UI option. -- Adam Tauno Williams ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] Error occurred while sending after enabling Google 2-step authentication [with solution]
Hi all, Ran into a problem this morning, but in the process of writing this email, I worked out the solution. I'll send this mail anyway, with solution, so if someone (including myself) encounters the same problem later on, it's there in the archives. Some Background: What's happened is that I recently turned on Google 2-step authentication, after reading a horror story of someone having their gmail password stolen (e.g. from a keylogger on an Internet terminals), and from that lost their email, contacts, calendars, and then experiencing bank fraud due to identity theft and reset passwords on their banking sites, and so forth, and the whole thing sounded like a total nightmare ... and in the ensuing discussion, the consensus solution to avoid the same fate was to turn on 2-step authentication, where you enter a password, plus a numeric code that's SMSed to your phone or generated on your phone, and only with both of those things can you log in (i.e. something you know + something you have). So similar to many banking sites, but you can mark a browser as trusted after the first successful login, and thereafter you only need your password, so a bit more convenient. More background: Most of Google's own apps now support 2-step authentication, but to help with legacy apps that don't support 2-step authentication, such as Evolution, you can generate an application password. This a password that you should use just for that app, and it's 16 characters of gibberish, so very hard to brute force. It's supposed to work just like your normal password did previously, without requiring your phone for authentication, and once you're no longer using that app, you then revoke the app-specific password, and it no longer works. If you want further info, it's available at: http://www.google.com/landing/2step/ Configuration in Evolution: I have this gmail account configured as IMAP + for receiving, and SMTP for sending, and previous to this it worked fine. Also there's a Google calendar configured with the same account. Evolution version is 3.8.4 What happened: After enabling 2-step authentication, Evolution prompted me to enter my password. So I entered the app-specific password I had generated (once for my email + once for my calendar), and I can view everything as normal in Evolution, and mark mail as read, and so forth. The problem is sending mail. Ever since enabling 2-step authentication, when I reply to mail or create a new mail, and then hit Send, I get a dialog error box that says: - An error occurred while sending. How do you want to proceed? The reported error was Bad authentication response from server.. [Continue Editing] [Save to Outbox] [Try Again] - Thought process: My suspicion is that Evolution (or gnome-keyring) is still remembering and using the old password for SMTP sending, rather than the app-specific SMTP password that it should be using now. Is there somewhere that I can say hey, forget that old SMTP password, and prompt me for the SMTP password next time you need it? Solution: * install seahorse (it's in the standard repository of most distributions), and run it. * then in the top-right search box type smtp, press enter * it should show an entry like this smtp://youremail% 40gmail.com;auth=pl...@smtp.gmail.com:587. * Right-click on that entry, choose delete. * Then quit Evolution, then restart evolution. * Try sending mail again. This still didn't work, so then I searched in seahorse for evolution * There were a number of entries named things like Evolution Data Source 1220830865.7426.7@redux. You can't really tell what account they are for by looking at them, but by showing the password for each, I was able to check if they were the old password, and if so, then delete each of those entries. I deleted around 6 entries, but I had deleted and re-added this account a few times in previous years. * Then quit Evolution, then restart evolution. * When I tried sending again, it prompted for the password, and I entered the app-specific password, and then it sent successfully, so that was the solution. How Evo could have made this a bit easier to solve: * Prompting for the password to be entered on encountering a Bad authentication response from server. when sending, or allowing it to be re-entered by clicking a button on that dialog box, would have been ideal. [this is the first place I looked] Even a link to open the relevant Sending Email configuration page could be good, especially if combined with the entry below: * Under Edit - Preferences - select account - Edit - Sending Email, a way to say forget password would have helped. [this was the second place I looked] -- All the best, Nick. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
