Ok, I take your point... But since this only happens with Evolution
and
no other applications, I am assuming that this is a problem with
Evolution and not the system around it
If indeed there were a problem with Evolution it would still important
to know the context. Not that
Hi all,
Yesterday I had to use my desktop, and Evolution, without a mouse for a
few hours.
I was only stymied by one problem: Is there some way to open links in
emails, using just a keyboard?
With a mouse I'd simply click on any links, but with a keyboard, what
seemed obvious/intuitive to me
I was only stymied by one problem: Is there some way to open links in
emails, using just a keyboard?
At least on my U.S. keyboard, the pop-up menu key (opposite the
Windows logo key) brings up the context menu for the link where I can
choose to Open Link in Browser.
Yes, perfect, that
Some Background: What's happened is that I recently turned on Google
2-step authentication,
You would be better off using GNOME Online Accounts (or Ubuntu Online
Accounts if you're a Unity guy) where you sign into Google once to
obtain an access token good for all Google services.
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
The question is what version of Gnome comes with 14.04. Typically
Ubuntu will use the just released version of Gnome, which for
Ubuntu
14.04 means the version of Gnome due to be released next week:
Gnome
3.12.
Not as far as I know. Ubuntu has not been shipping the latest GNOME
I ask because I (like quite a few
others, I would imagine) are using the version that comes with our
distribution (Ubuntu 12.04 in my case)
I'm going to see what it will take to upgrade to 3.6 on my computer
right now.
Apparently what it would take to get Evo 3.6 in Ubuntu is upgrading to
Secondly because it's directed at the wrong people (end users), when
it should be directed at the people who specified the app - the
Outlook product managers, or the people who purchased it.
Are you saying home users (who are their own administrator and
procurement team leader on a one
Then create a text file named outlook_idiot_lecture.msg,
containing the following:
I'm a bit unsure that the lecture is going to change anything. Firstly
because I'm dubious about its effectiveness at being heard (positive
messages almost always trump negative ones). Secondly because it's
Evolution 3.2.3, Gnome 3, FC 16
It's no major issue, but Evo tends to take an age to close down.
I've seen this. It happens once in a while, without much consistency.
Evolution 'grays out' after I hit close and just sits there, and sits
there, and sits there
I've seen it
Mail: Spell check does not spell check an email's subject line
[Probably blocked by the WebKit composer transition?]
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200683
WebKit can do spell checking only in it's own widget. We will probably
have to use some other existing spell checking
Hi all,
Now that the Evo 3.6 development period seems to be underway, I'm going
to post a short list of the Evo enhancement requests in bugzilla that
stand out for me the most.
There's roughly 73 open and 105 resolved bugs - a superb ratio - in
bugzilla for Evo that I've got bookmarked, either
In a browser, I select File -- SendLink. After some click whirr, I
get an EVO compose message window.
The web page title appears as the subject line -- a nice touch.
The web page URL appears in the message body ... BROKEN.
Instead of getting the URL on a single line of text, I get two lines
$ gconftool-2 --get /apps/evolution/addressbook/sources | grep file:
which should usually return no lines, but for you, I believe, it'll
return 6 hits
It did indeed!
as for you it should be just about getting rid of file:// and
replace it with local:, and bonus points if you get rid of
Hi all,
Sometime after I upgraded from Evo 2.32 to Evo 3.2.2, I noticed that
there are some local address books that I could no longer view.
Specifically, when clicking on them, it doesn't show any contacts, but
it shows the following error message in red:
Is there a way to turn Message Preview/the Preview Pane off by
default in Evo 3.2.2 ?
You might try:
Edit - Preferences - Mail Preferences - General (tab) -
[ ] Apply the save view settings to all folders
I've just tried it, but it did not seem to change whether the
Is there a way to turn Message Preview/the Preview Pane off by default
in Evo 3.2.2 ?
I tried the gconftool-2 command from:
http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Evolution_always_crashes_when_I_start_it.2C_what_can_I_do.3F
(although I know that this FAQ is out of date, and a kitten dies every
time
But I'd like to hear from all of you what do you think about the proposed
look, what would you change or keep, or remove... I have printed the email in
various mail clients so that you can compare it and find some inspiration :)
The new WebKit one looks great!
Only things that I though
the above is still valid in 3.1.5, the message window doesn't update
its actions, thus if you go to Message-Mark as, then you can see that
the state of them doesn't change when you mark message as read/unread.
You can safely file a bug for this.
It works as expected from the mail list
Hi all,
I'm running an older version of Evo (2.32.2), and am seeing two possible
bugs with Mark Read / ctrl-k and Mark Unread / ctrl-shift-k.
2.32.2 is quite old now though, so before I log a bug in bugzilla, I'd
first like to ask if anyone lucky enough to be running a current version
(3.0.x or
Hi,
you didn't indicate what version of evolution (-data-server) you are
using,
Sorry, my bad, I'm running EDS 2.30.3.
but the upcoming 3.0.0 depends on latest libgdata and supports
most (if not all) of the fields you named above. The Google
addressbook backend was also massively
I'm running Evolution (2.30.3) on my desktop, and want to be able to
sync this with Evolution on the laptop (for use when away from
base).
Can this be done simply by copying ~/.evolution from one to the
other? (This is what I do with the Pan newsreader and its ~/.pan
directory.)
I
I hope I am complying this time - am really unfamiliar with lists.
That's awesome. You quoted an entire digest message to reply to a
thread about why digest messages are obsolete and evil and how we
can prevent users from directly replying to them.
I hope you're seeing the irony.
Currently Evo lets you reply to a message within a digest but quite a
few people don't seem to realize this
It does? I'm using Evolution 2.30.3, and was reading your message in
digest format, but I could not see a way to reply to just your message
in the digest. I looked in two places:
1) I
FWIW, it was meaningful enough to me. The word 'Ubuntu' means that
he's using a version of Evolution that is *so* old that I cannot be
persuaded to care about it.
Given that we all seem to agree that Ubuntu are doofuses for not
shipping the latest stable Evo release with their distro releases
Thank you very much for the response Milan, it was extremely helpful,
and a few details updates are included below.
* Is there some application-wide way to turn off the email preview pane?
It was changed, unfortunately. I'm sorry.
No worries at all, it's a one-off transition and then it's
Hi all,
I upgraded my main workstation distro this morning, which upgraded Evo
from 2.28.3 to 2.30.3. It looks good, and it's great to finally be
upgrading from something two major releases out-of-date, to something
just one major release out-of-date :-) There's a couple of things that
I'm having
1. When I get an email with pictures, I can see them, but
I can't right-click and save them. Why not?
Depends on how the pictures are included with the email. If they are
attachments, then you can save them (by clicking on the arrow to the
right of the attachment); if they are
IMHO, the ability to purge mailboxes should be more visible. Maybe
evolution should warn that a mailbox is full of 90% deleted messages
(which was my case).
since a significant number of the queries to
this list involve the fact that people don't see deleted messages.
How did you turn off indexes?
Click on mailbox and uncheck Index text messages. This is written in
French, I don't know the original text in English.
I had the same question (how to turn off indexes). Looks like it's
something that applies to local/On this computer mailboxes only -
under
but I did not find any option for Receiving Options. Would
appreciate it if someone would tell me where I'm missing the boat.
The full drill-down is: Edit - Preferences - Mail Accounts - select
account - Edit - Receiving options tab - tick check for new messages
every [xx] minutes, and replace
I know nothing about Ubuntu, but Evo follows Gnome releases, so Evo
2.30 is part of Gnome 2.30. Ubuntu 10.04 comes with Gnome 2.28, so
trying to persuade Evo 2.30 to work with Gnome 2.28 is always going to
have problems. The best thing is to wait for Ubuntu 10.10 or change
distro to one
I am having problem to sent mail to the users, who is having user name
with dot.
Address change after/while evolution sent the mail and I get a failure
notice.
example: U. Test em...@abc.c --- U. T est em...@abc.c
The changing patten is almost same for all the recipient users name
The real target of this automatic behaviour would be the clueless
users who don't really think about what they're doing -- yes?
Plus more importantly the vast silent majority of people, who want their
email client to have sensible defaults, so they can just start using it
for its intended
I almost never use the buttons so that's irrelevant to me.
I quite like the toolbar buttons, and people who are newer to Evo will
probably use them more too. So maybe the toolbar buttons can be changed,
but only when there's the appropriate list headers? Example toolbar
buttons:
Normal email: [
I'll try and post a bug against Chromium, if I can figure out where
(it'll probably have to be against Chrome I suppose).
Interestingly, the bug doesn't happen with Chrome, just Chromium. I may
try and contact the Chromium maintainer directly.
Just a quick follow-up on the paste bug, I
In every other Linux application, double clicking on a word selects
the whole word and moving the cursor while holding a mouse button down
selects all words from the one double clicked on to the word on which
the cursor now stands, inclusive. [...snip...] Evolution should behave
the same as
In the normal text area, I maintain that it should
paste the URL, especially when the composer is in plain-text mode
I think we agree 100% on the desired outcome in this case. I absolutely
want it to paste the URL in this use-case too, and I consider the
current behaviour to be a bug, no
If I paste from the Chromium location bar into a random command line or text
editor, I'm certainly getting the URL and not the contents, which is as
I would expect.
I am almost certain it's a Chromium bug.
Here's a non-Evo test case exposing the same problem: With a
bleeding-edge daily build
You don't need to file enhancement requests -- all this good stuff is
already built into the evolution-2.31 package and the express mode
is triggered with a command line switch:
evolution --express
A lot of the enhancements will eventually seep into the standard UI.
The code is
1) State recovery: Would it make sense to have Evo restore all open
windows on reopening after a crash,
That's actually near the top of my to-do list.
[...snip...]
This would also let you shut down your computer with Evolution still
running, and Evolution would appear as you left it when
the larger issue is that he keeps replying to digests.
If you want to get rid of the digest option, and switch everyone to be
regular subscribers, that's fine by me, I read the digests at the
moment, but it's not really much effort to adapt to such a change.
If you can't get rid of the digest
There was Anjal, but that project is already abandoned in favor of
Evolution Express (coming soon in 3.0).
I had not heard of Evolution Express before. For anyone else in a
similar situation, here's some info with some screenshots if you scroll
down a bit:
In browsers like Chrome, the application has different processes for
each tab. The result (in theory) is that one misbehaving tab cannot
crash the whole browser.
Slightly left-of-field question: In the long-long-long-term, would it
make sense for Evolution to use this model too, with one process
I don't know if I'm missing something but when a search an event on
the calendar, Evo shows no results. I have to manually scroll the
months until I find the keyword I was looking for, meaning that if an
event was 10 years ago I have to scroll 12x10 pages before I get to
the search results.
* Undo for tasks, notes and appointments -
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413618
Speaking personally it would be far more useful to have a general Undo
in mail, specifically for deletions and message moves. This has been
requested repeatedly over the years.
Sounds reasonable
If not, I want this feature as an idea for gnome to participate in the
SummerOfCoder2010 (please refer to
http://live.gnome.org/action/login/SummerOfCode2010/Ideas )
If you're looking for ideas of things to implement in Evo, that have not
been implemented, have not had any devs indicate it's
I suppose my problem is my email space is very limited at my new
company compared to the amount of automated mail coming in. That's
why I'd like to purge mail after a couple of days. But your tools
require me to do that MANUALLY.
So now I have filters that work on incoming mail. The
Evolution hangs with formatting at the bottom of the message
window. [... snip ...] Has anyone else seen a similar problem?
Closest match I am aware of is Evolution hangs when formatting
message: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361145
-- All the best,
Nick.
Would the user's Sent copy preserve the separator, or should it store
a canonical version of the message? I'm not clear on the
implications of this.
My preference would be to store the canonical version.
I.e. even if the user enters addresses with semicolons as the delimiter,
that Evo converts
Currently, when composing an email, currently ctrl-s tries to save
an email to disk (i.e. save as...), rather than saving a draft of
the email to the Drafts folder. (Save Draft is ctrl-shift-s).
A request for changing this is logged in bugzilla as:
Exchange delimits email address in the To: field with semicolons
instead of commas. Since Evo. is set to look for commas, the result
is that if an email is sent to more than one person, the other
addresses do not appear in the header of the message in Evo.
This is based on the Mailstandard
Exchange delimits email address in the To: field with semicolons
instead of commas. Since Evo. is set to look for commas, the result
is that if an email is sent to more than one person, the other
addresses do not appear in the header of the message in Evo.
Is there any way to
Hello fellow Evo users,
I would like to ask for people's feedback and comments on a proposed
shortcut key change.
Currently, when composing an email, currently ctrl-s tries to save an
email to disk (i.e. save as...), rather than saving a draft of the
email to the Drafts folder. (Save Draft is
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 12:45 +0200, Mark Elkins wrote:
From: ORG.ZA Confirmation conf...@org.za
[snip]
This e-mail address is the only e-mail address where this happens.
Is there any reason why?
Hi,
yes, if I recall correctly it's that dot in the name part, plus
spaces.
But when I access the second instance,
the pop-up that responds to the TO: in the EDIT (email composing)
mode, that window is ignoring the instruction, and displaying the
Contacts sorted on Full Name, rather than on the File Under field.
I observe the same behaviour in Evo 2.26.1; if it's
Sorry to jump into someone elses thread, but this reminds me of a
feature request.
I'd like a paste as plain text option for Evolution.
SHIFT-CTRL-V. I end up pasting into a text editor first and then
recopy paste to remove Evolutions crazy formatting.
BTW, this helps somewhat with
I failed to also mention the major issue of contact importation from
Outlook that currently makes my data useless to me because of the
issues I mentioned in the first email.
Hi,
I do not have access to an Outlook machine, but isn't there any other
format to export your contacts
Hi all,
Just getting ready to upgrade my main workstation from Evo 2.26 to 2.28
after testing 2.28 for a bit on a laptop, and though I might just send a
quick note to say thank you to the developers (especially Milan, who is
ceaselessly busy! and also to the developers working on backend stuff
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588833
But, suffice to say this change doesn't make much sense. I'm trying to
think of a situation where, by default you would want to reply from a
different address than the mail as went to but I can't.
To me the bugfix in
latest roadmap (http://www.go-evolution.org/Evo2.26) concerns the
planning for 2.26. That version was released more than 6 months ago,
There's also:
http://www.go-evolution.org/Evo2.28 and
http://www.go-evolution.org/Evo2.30 (although maybe there weren't
previously links to those pages on
Hi all,
Is this a known bug? I've searched bugzilla, but can't see it, yet it
seems odd, so I'm assuming someone must have seen it before. Details as
follows:
I have an HTML email that I have received, with 7 attachments (i.e.
Evolution says 7 attachments and then has the Save All button, and
at
It would be a lot better if instead of greying out the
send/receive button if it switched to saying work online
I spent time wondering if I had been hacked because of this!
Work offline should be transparent to the user.
Besides, there's already an indicator of 'work
What makes an event a meeting rather than an appointment?
When you first create an event in the calendar, you specify whether it's
a meeting or an appointment (e.g. File - New - Meeting, or File - New
- Appointment). Use appointments for events/reminders just for you, and
meetings for events
Hi Ben,
This problem concerns the order of preference of emails when these are
added to a Contact. I might expect that the first email (as entered
in
the Contacts dialog) is the preferred email (e.g., displayed on the
Contact's address card when this is formatted in the list, first
choice
A related matter concerns the PO Box number field.
The PO Box field seems a little odd and out-of-place to me. Its tab
order is wrong, I don't know if it adds much, from what you described it
has issues with making labels and it doesn't add the PO Box part to
number-only fields, and I have to
suspect that for people
what different usage patterns that the same idea would apply to the
other fields too.
-- All the best,
Nick.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Roberts b...@roberts.geek.nz
To: Nick Jenkins nic...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Order of preferred email addresses
I'm tired of waiting while trying to compose a new e-mail in
Evolution. I just press the New button, and it appears to be working
behind, but it's only after at least 15 seconds that it throws the
compose screen. My version of Evolution is 2.26.1, and I'm using it
in Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty,
I suggest adding a button to dial from the contact list using skype
Good idea, could maybe be generalised a bit though. Suggest logging a
bug in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ , requesting a dial/chat button next
to each non-blank phone number / instant chat field, which dials the
number / initiates
4) Can I call other skype users from Ekiga
No, as I've said before, Skype prevents that.
... And that's the real issue for end-users. If you like free software,
BUT most of your friends or customers don't care and are using Skype,
then most people just install skype and chat to them using
Is it possible to add the column showing when a task was created in
Tasks?
We currently have a Due and Start date but not a Creation / Updated
date.
Start / Due dates only apply if you are setting a time frame for a
specific
task.
I can't see a way to do it either, but agree it would be
Hi Patrick,
Thank you very much for the great explanations and information!
Writing up your experience for LWN would be useful to get the attention
of other developers and potential packagers.
I sent LWN a rough draft to see if they were interested, but the
response was no:
The article, as
Hi all,
Following the recent discussions, I though that I would try the syncing
method that people have been talking about (Funambol + syncevolution +
genesis), to keep my evolution contacts + my phone's contacts in sync.
Experiences and notes follow. Note the Linux distro was Ubuntu, so some
of
Use the Templates folder in the local store.
Ahhh. Yes. I see. Kinda klunky though, to have to go there and
Edit as New Message rather than Message-Compose New Message From
Template-[list of templates].
Or maybe the usual ctrl-N / New toolbar icon to make a new mail, and
then a new
I'm really trying to understand what is so objectionable about the
hyphens for some people. I don't really understand.
Let me answer your request for explanation with a completely fictitious
story - an off-line corollary, if you will - to explain why it's
objectionable to me. Indulge me.
I want to thank you all for your great responses and feedback - even
where you firmly told me that you disagreed with me, I do appreciate it.
I'll keep the responses brief, and group them into one message to keep
it simpler.
I did try to limit mine to my top 5-6 really can't use this utility
Second, note the one hyphen in my signature above the longer series
below? I can't get rid of that hovering hyphen. I've edited my
signature, of course, but that hovering hyphen doesn't appear there.
How can I get rid of that?
I hate the force-inserted hyphens too. I am forever manually
Hi all,
A few weeks ago, I read how on this list how someone (maybe poc?) used
to post their list of Evolution bugs that annoyed them, with their bug
numbers / bugzilla links.
Having just upgraded to Evolution 2.24.3, and having tested where
possible to confirm that bugs I'm watching are still
Many web pages offers ical/vcard files. Is is possible to open them
directly in evolution instead of saving it first and then importing
from
the File menu?
You probably have to associate VCS/VCF data with Evolution in your
browser. In Mozilla FireFox:
Edit - Preferences - Applications
Hi all,
I am currently setting up reading IMAP email on my mobile phone, but one
problem is the mail that I have marked as spam in Evolution. In
Evolution it's quarantined separately into a Junk folder for that IMAP
account, but when I use the IMAP mobile phone client, all the spam still
shows as
My questions are: What is this sqlite database being used for? Is it
used for storing the mail? Is my new + old local mail still all
stored
in MBOX format?
Hi,
mails are still stored in an MBOX format, the sqlite database is for
summaries, the index of some particular data
Sorry if I've missed a prior post on this and any subsequent
answers, but since upgrading Xubuntu from 8.04 to 8.10, Evo's
email editor consistently underlines all words, not just those
incorrectly spelled. And now for the obligatory cliche: It worked
just fine under 8.04.
Hi Matthew,
Looks like it's messing up the zero languages case -- I just reproduced
it for myself. Good observation. Can you and Peter confirm this?
Yep. I was able to reproduce the problem on 2.24.1 by doing the
following:
* Go Edit - Preferences - Composer Preferences - Spell checking -
Hi all,
When migrating a test laptop from Evolution 2.22.3.1 to Evolution
2.24.1, I noticed that it ran an evolution sqlite migration tool once to
do something with my email folders.
My questions are: What is this sqlite database being used for? Is it
used for storing the mail? Is my new + old
Hi all,
Quick question: How do I sync my local MBOX mail between a desktop
machine and a laptop? At least to start with, I only want my local mail
synced in one direction (desktop - laptop), so that I have access to my
old mail archives whilst travelling, even if I don't have Internet
access.
Hi all,
Quick question: How do I sync my local MBOX mail between a desktop
machine and a laptop? At least to start with, I only want my local mail
synced in one direction (desktop - laptop), so that I have access to my
old mail archives whilst travelling, even if I don't have Internet
access.
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