Re: [Evolution] tips and tricks and questions and answers.
Andre : Thanks a lot for sharing these invaluable nuggets. You rock as always :-). I have added them to the project wiki at http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ. I appeal to all contributors to use this page for consolidating their FAQ inputs and help in making this the de facto reference point for Evolution users regarding such queries. Thanks, Harish On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:44 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: hi folks, looks like i'm currently a bit disappointed by the company that still provides the software for my open enterprise(tm) (and no, it is not a problem of time). time to free some of the few written bits of knowledgework that would otherwise rot on my harddisk. attached you will find a file that includes a collection of evo related questions that have been asked more often or that have been very interesting, and of course their more or less complete answers. no guarantee for anything included, but a copy, paste, redistribute, change as you like licensee. i sometimes used this to answer mailing lists user questions, hope it's useful to somebody. welp, so long crew here, andre plain text document attachment (evolution-FAQE), tips and tricks and questions and answers. = Mail = Questions regarding the mailer and composer, for example junk mail, encryption or spell checking. Please note that desktop integration issues (for example setting the preferred browser and launching evolution from a browser) are part of the interoperability section. == General == === I cannot see some emails, but they must be there. === Some possible reasons: * You use filters on incoming (or outgoing) messages that move your messages automatically to another destination. If you have enabled junk filtering, also take a look into the junk folder. * Check your search view in the search bar right above the message list, perhaps you have any value in it? * Just to be sure: Click Edit | Show Hidden Messages. * Take a look into Evolution's Junk folder. Messages that are marked as Junk disappear from the original folder and are only displayed in the Junk folder. * Check your default folder under Edit | Preferences | Email Accounts | Edit | Defaults. Perhaps it is set to some other folder then the folder you thought of. If this specially refers to an IMAP account and you upgraded Evolution to version 2.4, and you are using a Cyrus IMAP server, then try to change your account settings to Show subscribed mails only. Then use Folder | Subscriptions to subscribe to your Inbox and any other folder. You might need to restart Evolution in between. This bug is fixed was Evolution 2.4.2.1 and later. === How i can update/refresh Search folders (formerly called vFolders)? === Refreshing a Search folder by a command is not possible (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257582). However, you should get an updated view by going to another folder and then going back to your Search folder. === Why do my mail filters not work? === Generally, be aware of the fact that the order of your filters is important. If your very first filter has a Stop processing rule, all the other filters will be ignored by the emails that match to this first filter rule. If you want your filters to apply automatically and you are using an IMAP account, make sure you have enabled Apply filters to new messages in INBOX on this server under Edit | Preferences | Email Accounts | Edit | Receiving Options | Options. Also, filters depend on the new flag which will be set only when a particular mail is fetched from server for the first time. If any other mail client is used to check mail before Evolution, Evolution's filters may not work. === Why do I get the message No provider available for protocol email.? === This can happen if you have just installed Evolution on a new machine and have copied the file named filters.xml, so your filter rules are suffering from a version mismatch with Evolution. Since the filters refer to accounts directly, and accounts all have a unique ID number, you get the above error if it cannot find the account anymore, so you either have not copied the account settings or they have been changed in the meantime. To fix it, edit your filters and re-select the folder for each Copy/Move filter. === How can I get informed of new mail arriving? === Since Evolution 2.2, a panel notification applet via D-BUS exists. Evolution itself is only able to play a sound file or to beep. Go to Edit | Preferences | Mail Preferences | General | New Mail Notification. Note that esound must be running to be able to hear your sound file. === Why does new junk mail automatically get marked as read? === Good question - one can easily miss new messages which have been incorrectly marked as junk. Workaround: Both for trash and the junk folder, one can enable displaying the number of ALL messages in the preview pane (in brackets
Re: [Evolution] tips and tricks and questions and answers.
Hi Andre, Thank you for the list. I'm sure many would find it most useful :-) One small correction though: On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:44 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: == Why can't I connect to Exchange? == First of all, make sure the package Evolution Exchange is installed beside Evolution. Make sure the Exchange plugin is enabled under Edit | Plugins. Also, Evolution Exchange only supports Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 with OWA turned on (for WebDAV access). If you would like to connect to an Exchange 5.5, 2000 or 2003 server via MAPI (as would Outlook), get the Evolution Brutus Plugin at http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/index.php. Evolution Brutus supports complete access to your Exchange mail account, read access to your Exchange Calendar and read access to your Exchange Tasks. If this still does not work, make sure you use domain\user and not domain/user in the Evolution Account Editor Windows Username. The above snippet about Brutus should more correctly read: If you would like to connect to an Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 or 2007 server via MAPI (as would Outlook), get the Evolution Brutus Plugin at http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/index.php. Evolution Brutus supports complete access to your Exchange mail, calendar and tasks. Thanks, jules ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] tips and tricks and questions and answers.
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 13:44 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: hi folks, looks like i'm currently a bit disappointed by the company that still provides the software for my open enterprise(tm) (and no, it is not a problem of time). time to free some of the few written bits of knowledgework that would otherwise rot on my harddisk. Mmh .. maybe I'm being dense, but I didn't undertand that part of your mail. Do you mean you're leaving us ? Xav ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] tips and tricks and questions and answers.
hi folks, looks like i'm currently a bit disappointed by the company that still provides the software for my open enterprise(tm) (and no, it is not a problem of time). time to free some of the few written bits of knowledgework that would otherwise rot on my harddisk. attached you will find a file that includes a collection of evo related questions that have been asked more often or that have been very interesting, and of course their more or less complete answers. no guarantee for anything included, but a copy, paste, redistribute, change as you like licensee. i sometimes used this to answer mailing lists user questions, hope it's useful to somebody. welp, so long crew here, andre -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | failed! http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/portal/aklapper = Mail = Questions regarding the mailer and composer, for example junk mail, encryption or spell checking. Please note that desktop integration issues (for example setting the preferred browser and launching evolution from a browser) are part of the interoperability section. == General == === I cannot see some emails, but they must be there. === Some possible reasons: * You use filters on incoming (or outgoing) messages that move your messages automatically to another destination. If you have enabled junk filtering, also take a look into the junk folder. * Check your search view in the search bar right above the message list, perhaps you have any value in it? * Just to be sure: Click Edit | Show Hidden Messages. * Take a look into Evolution's Junk folder. Messages that are marked as Junk disappear from the original folder and are only displayed in the Junk folder. * Check your default folder under Edit | Preferences | Email Accounts | Edit | Defaults. Perhaps it is set to some other folder then the folder you thought of. If this specially refers to an IMAP account and you upgraded Evolution to version 2.4, and you are using a Cyrus IMAP server, then try to change your account settings to Show subscribed mails only. Then use Folder | Subscriptions to subscribe to your Inbox and any other folder. You might need to restart Evolution in between. This bug is fixed was Evolution 2.4.2.1 and later. === How i can update/refresh Search folders (formerly called vFolders)? === Refreshing a Search folder by a command is not possible (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257582). However, you should get an updated view by going to another folder and then going back to your Search folder. === Why do my mail filters not work? === Generally, be aware of the fact that the order of your filters is important. If your very first filter has a Stop processing rule, all the other filters will be ignored by the emails that match to this first filter rule. If you want your filters to apply automatically and you are using an IMAP account, make sure you have enabled Apply filters to new messages in INBOX on this server under Edit | Preferences | Email Accounts | Edit | Receiving Options | Options. Also, filters depend on the new flag which will be set only when a particular mail is fetched from server for the first time. If any other mail client is used to check mail before Evolution, Evolution's filters may not work. === Why do I get the message No provider available for protocol email.? === This can happen if you have just installed Evolution on a new machine and have copied the file named filters.xml, so your filter rules are suffering from a version mismatch with Evolution. Since the filters refer to accounts directly, and accounts all have a unique ID number, you get the above error if it cannot find the account anymore, so you either have not copied the account settings or they have been changed in the meantime. To fix it, edit your filters and re-select the folder for each Copy/Move filter. === How can I get informed of new mail arriving? === Since Evolution 2.2, a panel notification applet via D-BUS exists. Evolution itself is only able to play a sound file or to beep. Go to Edit | Preferences | Mail Preferences | General | New Mail Notification. Note that esound must be running to be able to hear your sound file. === Why does new junk mail automatically get marked as read? === Good question - one can easily miss new messages which have been incorrectly marked as junk. Workaround: Both for trash and the junk folder, one can enable displaying the number of ALL messages in the preview pane (in brackets after the folder name) by using the environment variable EVOLUTION_COUNT_TRASH=1. === Why does Evolution download duplicate emails? How can I get rid of them? Why does Evolution reload old mails from server when Leave a message on the pop server is activated? === There are several possible reasons when this happens: * You have got several copies in your mailbox * The mail server supports the UIDL extension yet changes the message UIDs each session * The mail server does not support UIDL