Right now running evolution 3.19.90 under Ubuntu 16.04. Only color theme that
shows vertical scroll bars on evolution is highcontrast. However, that color
scheme blanks out text that is highlighted. What color scheme should I be
using?
Thank you,
This applies to evolution 3.19.90 operating under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Vertical
scroll bars on mail (column with list of folders) and lists of messages in a
folder only appear with certain themes, highcontrast, for example. Is there a
reason for this?
Thank you,
n-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Import filetypes
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:39:56 +0100
On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 11:36 -0500, John Lauterbach wrote:
> Andre, the instructions are incomplete in that they do not include
> information on importing Outlook Express (OE) dbx folders. While OE
>
Andre, the instructions are incomplete in that they do not include information
on importing Outlook Express (OE) dbx folders. While OE is an obsolete product,
I still maintain my OE and the dbx folders on the Win XP side of my laptop.
When I moved over to evolution several years ago, I did not
Use Ubuntu 15.10 and PPAs from Gnome3-team and Gnome3-team staging. All this
works even on ancient PCs. Have a backup PC that is an eight-year old hp/Compaq
dx2200m.
John
-Original Message-
From: ThePsionic
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution]
Hello Jack,
I use evolution 3.18.2 under Ubuntu 15.10.
du -sh responded with "9.8G"
du -ah | more responded with what appeared to be a very complete
list of things in evolution, but not sure what it all meant.
Perhaps the experts can give you more information
Ian, upgrades to evolution require software that is only available in later
versions of the operating system. If you upgrade to Ubuntu 15.10, you will get
evolution 3.16.2. Ubuntu 15.10 is very stable (much more so than Windows 10),
and I have been using it on both 32-bit and 64-bit PCs w/o a
Hello Ian:
Please note that 3.10.4 is an obsolete version of evolution. Serious users are
using much newer versions.
I am using 3.18.2 under Ubuntu 15.10, and some in the Ubuntu community would say
I am using "unapproved" software as I had to use PPAs from the Gnome3 -team and
Gnome3-team
Good job, David. Now that you are at 15.10, it is not much extra work to add
the gnome3-team ppa and the gnome3-team staging ppa to get to 3.18.2 I finally
update the software on my secretary's PC to Ubuntu 15, 10, the ppas just
mentioned and evolution 3.18.2
John
-Original Message-
1. A big thank you to all who posted on how to upgrade 3.16.5 to 3.18.2
under Ubuntu 15.10.
2. The upgrade is not a big deal, but once you have enable the gnome3-
staging PPA, only update evolution, unless you are sure that Ubuntu Desktop will
not be removed in the process.
3.
Elwell <elwe...@verizon.net>
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution crashes on startup
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:43:07 -0500
On 11/30/2015 10:25 PM, John Lauterbach wrote:
> This is an inherent problem of evolution 3.10.4 running under Ubuntu
> 14.04. There
This is an inherent problem of evolution 3.10.4 running under Ubuntu 14.04.
There are a number of things in non-all-text e-mails that can do this.
Evolution is the main e-mail client for my business. It works okay for my
secretary because she generally gets simple e-mail. I get all sorts of
Has anyone used the deb files for 3.18.x to install and run evolution 3.18.x
under Ubuntu 15.10? If so, will 3.18.x run correctly under Ubuntu 15.10?
Thank you,
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To change your list options
I would very much appreciate some help from the experts on this problem. Again,
evolution 3.16.5 running under Ubuntu 15.10. When I start evolution from the
command line I get "Failed to initialize NSS SQL database in sql:/etc/pki/nssdb:
NSS error -8126 "
Google searches on that error do not
Hello:
You cannot go back to 3.10.4 once your addressbook was on a more recent
addition. There was a change on address book format.
John
-Original Message-
From: Marcin Sławiński
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: [Evolution] Detailed error message: Unable
In what order do the following DEB files need to be installed?
John
* evolution-3.18.1+git20151008-0ubuntu2~wily1
* evolution-common-3.18.1+git20151008-0ubuntu2~wily1
* evolution-dbg-3.18.1+git20151008-0ubuntu2~wily1
*
Ubuntu 15.10 works just fine. I have been using 3.16.5 in a mission critical
environment.
John
-Original Message-
From: Wolf Drechsel
To: Liste evolution
Subject: [Evolution] pre-formatted
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:48:05 +0200
The powers that control Ubuntu apparently do not care much about evolution.
Right now, only way to keep evolution reasonably current is to use
developmental versions of Ubuntu. I am using 15.10 beta and that allows me to
run evolution 3.16.5. Over the past few months, I have been using 15.10
Is there a reason that evolution 3.16.5 (and earlier versions) only allows
placement of the "Signature:" at either the top of an e-mail of the bottom of an
e-mail? I have many cases when I need to add my business signature (contains my
full contact information) to an e-mail I am writing in
I checked this recently using evolution 3.16.5 running under Ubutnu 15.10 beta.
Used evolution backup routine (Backup EvolutionData). Saved backup file to
spare partition on my SSD. Then copied the backup file to a 3 TB Toshiba USB
drive. Moved drive over to another PC running same versions
the objection to doing what works.
John
-Original Message-
From: Patrick O'Callaghan <p...@usb.ve>
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:55:08 +0100
On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:10 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
>
I had my home directory backed up on off-site backup at time motherboard on my
laptop crashed. How do I recover evolution mail and contacts from the various
files and folders that were saved?
Thank you,
John
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This problem started unexpectedly this morning. Evolution is 3.16.0 from
Fabian Tassin's ppa. Has worked fine for months. OS is Ubuntu 15.04.
Subject error came up when I started evolution from command line. When I start
evolution normally, most drop-down menus are grayed-out and bar at
Message-
From: Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] (evolution:2955): camel-WARNING **: Failed to
initialize NSS SQL database in sql:/etc/pki/nssdb: NSS error -8126
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:21:25 +0200
On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 17:00 +, John
Various repackages of Ubuntu with Gnome on top of them can give weird text
color / background color combinations.
Various tweak tools will sometimes allow one to change things around.
John
-Original Message-
From: lostsoul352 accou...@sacredeye.net
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject:
Hello Milan:
This is a troublesome problem that has affected all versions of evolution I
have used up to and including 3.16.3. If the e-mail service provided has
technical problems, and evolution cannot connect with provider's server, for
example, evolution puts out this error and it
-0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
DBX is the format for folders in MS Outlook Express. They easily
import into evolution with absolutely no problems.
I'm pretty sure that is only the case if some dbx-import plugin is
installed and activated.
andre___
...@usb.ve
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Properly archiving Evolution data
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:42:57 +0100
On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 22:15 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
If evolution can import a single dbx folder from outlook express, why
can't it export such a folder
If evolution can import a single dbx folder from outlook express, why can't it
export such a folder. If I could expect noncurrent folders as dbx, that would
solve the problem.
john
-Original Message-
From: Patrick O'Callaghan p...@usb.ve
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re:
I used the space bar to create the message below. When I use the tab key,
evolution (3.16.0) and try to send the message, evolution crashes immediately.
Is this a known bug?
Thank you, John
a. tab a.
b.tab b.
c. tab c
d.tab
Hello Andre:
This is a very good question. I would like to be able to archive certain
folders (for example, those from inactive clients), but be to bring them back
quickly should I need them. I had that situation occur recently, and what
saved me was that I still had the Outlook Express
Message-
From: Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Properly archiving Evolution data
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:55:47 +0200
Hi,
On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 11:00 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
This is a very good question. I would like to be able to archive
: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:46:57 +0200
On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 05:07 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
(gdb) bt
#0 0x7fff7a38c75d in TNEFFillMapi ()
from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libytnef.so.0
#1 0x7fff7a38c845 in TNEFMapiProperties ()
from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libytnef.so.0
#2
evolution 3.16.0 running under Ubuntu 15.04
Received a message with attachment. Only way to read it was to group it with
message immediately before and message immediately after and forward as
attached to a yahoo account on a PC running Win 7 and then use a program called
Free File Viewer (I
Subject: Re: [Evolution] winmail.dat attachment causes 3.16.0 to crash when
message opened
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:26:36 +0200
On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 04:17 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
What are next steps to resolve problem?
Hi,
install debug info packages for evolution-data-server
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] winmail.dat attachment causes 3.16.0 to crash when
message opened
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:26:36 +0200
On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 04:17 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
What are next steps to resolve problem?
Hi,
install debug info packages
I went from Ubuntu 15.10 MATE to Ubuntu 15.10 Gnome this morning. Added
https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/landing-028 to
repositories and upgraded evolution to 3.16.3.
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Over the weekend, I was able to get the i386 version of Ubuntu 15.10 Gnome to
install on a hp-compaq dx2200 minitower (2007 vintage). This distribution came
with Evolution 3.12.11 already installed. Gnome version is 3.16.2. I realize
that 15.10 is still under development so that is why I
, No Thunderbird!
john
-Original Message-
From: Pete Biggs p...@biggs.org.uk
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Ubuntu 15.10 Gnome and Evolution
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:02:54 +0100
On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 09:42 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
Over the weekend, I was able
Since switching to evolution almost two years ago, I have found various quirks
when attaching files, editing messages, receiving image-laden e-mail, and
sometimes even when sending messages with attachments. Many of these problems
have gone away since I have upgraded to 3.16.0 from earlier
Hello Patrick,
Perhaps Mr. Needle really meant Evolution 3.10.4. Chromixium apparently is
based on 32-bit version of Ubuntu 14.04. Evolution 3.13.7 will work on 14.4
and complied version can be found at https://launchpad.net/~fta/+ppa-packages
John
-Original Message-
From: Patrick
There appears to be much confusion on how to do this for those who are not on
servers.
I use my laptop for evolution (3.16.0 running under Ubuntu 15.04). I also have
a desktop with same version of evolution and same OS.
Home directories of both PC as well as other partitions on each SSD are
with particular build of 15.10 they are
using), I will try again and report findings.
John
-Original Message-
From: Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net
To: John Lauterbach laute...@bellsouth.net, evolution list
evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] 3.16.3 on Ubuntu 15.10
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15
Has anyone successfully installed 3.16.3 on Ubuntu (or variants) 15.10 (wily)
using http://ppa.launchpad.net/ci-train-ppa-service/landing-028/ ppa? I am
getting broken package errors.
Thank you,
John
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Phillip,
3.10.4 should be in the respositories for 14.04.2 LTS. I upgraded to 15.04 to
use 3.16.0. Right now, I am trying to find a usable iso image for 15.10 so I
can use 3.16.3.
john
-Original Message-
From: Phillip White phillip.wh...@sociomantic.com
To:
Hello Mr. Biggs:
Thank you for your reply. My scientific consulting business runs on Ubuntu and
I have a support agreement with Canonical. Canonical has provided me with
software support that has saved much time when things go wrong, primarily with
OS updates/upgrades that do not work as
Perhaps I am oversimplifying things, but it appears that the developers of
Evolution are working far ahead of those who compile the program for use with
various Linux distributions. It also appears that if it were not for the
efforts of Fabian Tassin, I would be stuck using a very outdated
I have had same problems with evolution 3.10.4 and earlier versions that Mr.
Howe reported, particularly when dealing with less than optimum connections.
It may be that the communications software associated with the OS Mr. Howe is
using is not up to current standards.
However, I have not had
out as ? instead of
correct time/date
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:00:58 +0200
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 15:48 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
This is in regards to Evolution 3.16.0 running under Ubuntu 15.04.
Recently, some dates on non-USA e-mail have been coming out as ?
instead of 26.06.15 14:57
This is in regards to Evolution 3.16.0 running under Ubuntu 15.04.
Recently, some dates on non-USA e-mail have been coming out as ? instead of
26.06.15 14:57 (for example)
The latest case was two very important e-mails from a long-time correspondent
in Paris, France, area. They went to the
Hello Wolf:
The folks who control Ubuntu (Canonical) are not supporters of evolution. All
evolution versions that work with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS are obsolete as far as the
evolution developers are concerned. The only way around that problem that I
have found is to upgrade to Ubuntu 15.04 and got
This applies to evolution 3.16.0 running under Ubuntu 15.04.
Yesterday, I was on a business trip and, for a time, I had to run
my laptop on battery power. I started having problems with my
search folder InBox -- AllAccounts updating. This search
folder picks up the InBox for one impax account
I compose all e-mail and reply e-mail in HTML with normal
formatting. I have had strange events occur when correcting a
mistake I have made or changing the wording in a phrase.
Backspacing a dozen or so characters can cause 3.16.0 to stall
and take CPU usage to 25% and grey-out the screen
Subject: Re: [Evolution] WebKit editor undo problems
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:51:27 +0200
On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 11:42 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
On 06/11/2015 11:23 AM, John Lauterbach wrote:
Today's business e-mails are the equivalent of typewritten
business
letters of the past. They need
-
From: Milan Crha mc...@redhat.com
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Search folder has stopped updating
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 06:31:11 +0200
On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 10:24 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
As of last evening, the only way I can get
the search folder to update is to go
Would this also explain increasingly slow response from keyboard
to screen when editing messages of more than a few lines with
3.16.0? For example, if I have to backspace, sometimes time-
delay approaches one character per second.
John
-Original Message-
From: Milan Crha
:45:16 +0200
On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 10:16 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
Would this also explain increasingly slow response from
keyboard
to screen when editing messages of more than a few lines with
3.16.0? For example, if I have to backspace, sometimes time-
delay approaches one character
I am using evolution 3.16.0 under Ubuntu 15.04. I use SpiderOak as
my remote off-site backup service. The e-mail in Evolution is very
important to me. In one sense, it is my corporate file cabinet.
SpiderOak backs-up my evolution and other data files when there are
changes. In addition, when
I am using evolution 3.16.0 running under Ubuntu 15.04. One of my e-
mail accounts is IMAP, the others are POP. Evolution is set to poll
each e-mail server every 5 minutes. About a week ago, I noticed that
I was not getting e-mails from the IMAP account. When I used the
providers webmail
-mail
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 19:33:13 +0100
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 13:17 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
I am using evolution 3.16.0 running under Ubuntu 15.04. One of my e
-
mail accounts is IMAP, the others are POP. Evolution is set to
poll
each e-mail server every 5 minutes. About a week
On Fri, 2015-05-22 at 08:46 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
I have four e-mail address set up for evolution 3,16.0 . My
address for this list and similar lists is not the same as my
business e-mail. I want to set up my evolution so that if I receive
a message at address 1, for example
I have four e-mail address set up for evolution 3,16.0 . My address
for this list and similar lists is not the same as my business e-
mail. I want to set up my evolution so that if I receive a message
at address 1, for example, the reply is automatically set to address
1, and the same for
I am using Evolution 3.16.0 under Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit.
While 3.16.0 solves some problems, it brought a new one,
preformatted. I want all my e-mail, including replies to
e-mails I have received. to be formatted, normal, without
any intervention on my part. So, how do I set the
Evolution so
program when opening e-mail attachments
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 07:38:39 +0200
On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 10:45 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
johnl@john-Vostro-3500:~$ xdg-mime query default
application/pdf
pdfstudio9.desktop
Hi,
Evolution relies on GLib to provide the information about
...@biggs.org.uk
To: evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] How do I set evolution to use a
particular program when opening e-mail attachments
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 09:54:37 +0100
On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 23:17 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
Before I switched to Ubuntu 15.04 to use evolution
Here is source from this morning e-mail Content-Type:
application/pdf; name=LAB 01 M45 (Moisture - Hearson).pdf
I also installed Ubuntu Tweaks 14.04 (works with 15.04) and
confirmed that PDF was assigned to pdfstudio9.
I just took another step. I also use Konqeror as a file
manager. I tried
Before I switched to Ubuntu 15.04 to use evolution 3.16.0,
evolution knew to use PDF Studio Pro to open PDF documents.
Files (Nautilus) is using the correct program. What do I
need to do to set it to use PDF Studio Pro to open PDF
attachments?
Thank you,
draft edited as new message
shows html (signs)
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 10:06:12 +0200
Am Freitag, den 15.05.2015, 06:55 -0400 schrieb John
Lauterbach:
Problem appears to be solved by upgrading Ubuntu from
14.04 to 15.04 and downloading Evolution 3.16.0 from
Fabien Tassin's webpage
edited as new message shows html
(signs)
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 08:14:05 +0200
On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 00:24 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
and no change in evolution (3.13.7)
Hi,
and it had been surely fixed [1] in the stable version of evolution,
like the current 3.16.2. Your 3.13.7
May 2015 08:14:05 +0200
On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 00:24 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
and no change in evolution (3.13.7)
Hi,
and it had been surely fixed [1] in the stable version of evolution,
like the current 3.16.2. Your 3.13.7 is utterly old *development*
version. Please build the stable
After double-click on message in Drafts folder, I get following
instead of Hello Joe, All dummy SCHB program abstracts are This
only started happening within past two months or so, and no change in
evolution (3.13.7) or OS (Ubuntu 14.04.2). How do I get the message I
want to edit?
John
The following problem recently started (and apparently spontaneously)
with 3.13.7 operating under Ubuntu 14.04.2 on my DELL Vostro 3500.
For example, nbsp; is being put in at the end of every sentence.
Ampersands are being replaced by amp; and other strange marks such as
span
I was preparing a list of things my secretary and my Son are to do
while I am on a business trip this coming week.
I had ten lines of text each beginning with a numeral, followed by a
period and a TAB space and then a single line of text.
Every time I tried to send the e-mail evolution crashed.
Running evolution 3.10.4 under Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit.
Strange behavior of evolution continues.
1.Some e-mails with html cause evolution to crash, but no bug
reports issues.
2.Keyring loses my evolution password. Why does this happen? Clue:
slow response from incoming mail servers
Running evolution 3.10.4 under Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit.
Strange behavior of evolution continues.
1.Some e-mails with html cause evolution to crash, but no bug reports
issues.
2.Keyring loses my evolution password. Why does this happen? Clue: slow
response from incoming mail servers
RE: Evolution 3.10.4 running under Ubuntu 14.04 on DELL Vostro 3500 with
8 GM RAM
Increasingly, evolution is taking over my PC when it encounters messages
written in HTML These are business-related messages that cannot be
ignored. This morning, I have had message take all available RAM and
all
I need to transfer my Evolution 3.10.4 to another PC. This is urgent
and cannot be ignored.
Every time I make the backup file and transfer to the other PC using
several different USB devices including high capacity ( 3 TG) backup
drives from Toshiba and WD Passport, I get Invalid Backup File
RE: evolution 3.13.4 running under Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
This afternoon I was moving folders from Sent to other folders. In one
case, I moved 6 or 7 e-mail from sent to folder OhioState. The e-mails
are no longer in Sent. They did not make it to OhioState. They are not
in Trash. They do not
RE: evolution 3.14.4 running under Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
Last evening, I received a bad e-mail from a trusted client. Each time I
clicked on the e-mail, evolution closed. I waited until I received
another e-mail and I forwarded the bad e-mail and the one immediately
before and immediately after
Evolution crashed when receiving new mail. It will not restart normally.
Starting form command line gives:
john@john-Vostro-3500:~$ evolution
(evolution:20042): camel-WARNING **: Failed to initialize NSS SQL database in
sql:/etc/pki/nssdb: NSS error -8187
(evolution:20042):
Is there a layperson's translation of the subject error message. It
occurs when SendAll is clicked and there is a message in the Outbox.
Repeating the SendAll command generally sends the message.
Evolution used is 3.23.3
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Where are the dictionary files located in 3.13.3? When I attempt to
correct misspelled words (red underline), I am given choices; but if the
word is not in the dictionaries (English, American English) there is no
way to add new words. I could do this with the earlier version of
Evolution I
I have my messages destroyed twice today. I am replying to a request for
comments on an e-mail with an attached document. The original e-mail also
contains a trademark like graphic from the sender's employer. In both
cases, the message simply disappeared. It is not in Trash. It is not in
I am using Evolution 3.2.3 running under Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. I am
still having difficulty moving e-mail from one folder to another. If I
group e-mails by sender in InBox, I can move each of those groups of
e-mails to a folder/subfolder I maintain for each sender. If I group
e-mails in Sent by
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