Re: [Evolution] Port Evolution to WebKit2 for 3.21.90

2016-08-08 Thread Robert Seward
On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 11:35 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to let the users know that we plan to merge the WebKit2 port > branch of the Evolution and thus make the Evolution depend on the > WebKit2 (instead of the WebKit1) for the 3.21.90 development release, > which is

Re: [Evolution] indefinite network connection timeouts, again

2014-10-08 Thread Robert Seward
Eugene, I don't connect to your mail servers, but my F20 install of evolutions has been very stable for a variety of POP and IMAP servers. I hate to say it, however it might be the servers you are connecting with... I just wanted to boost your confidence in the Evolution version in Fedora 20.

Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.10.4 -- CANNOT MAKE VALID BACKUP FILE

2014-09-10 Thread Robert Seward
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 03:01 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote: Am Montag, den 08.09.2014, 22:06 +0200 schrieb Ángel González: Bart wrote: Sounds like you are hitting the file size limit for the file system you have on your backup device. Perhaps if you format your backup device to ext4

Re: [Evolution] Errors receiving mail via POP

2014-09-02 Thread Robert Seward
Why do people still use POP, when IMAP is a more complete solution and things like offline-imap and fetchmail exist for those who work in an offline environment? P. I prefer POP with Evolution because it is more stable for me than IMAP. About half my accounts are POP and half are IMAP.

Re: [Evolution] Evolution is dying

2014-05-29 Thread Robert Seward
Hi Jimmy, Please see my comments inline per mail group netiquette. On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 20:45 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote: Thank you, Pete Biggs. I appreciate your direction to the gizmo. Unfortunately I see it's for versions 13, and I'm running version 14.04 So it's thanks but no thanks

Re: [Evolution] Migration problem

2014-02-06 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Dave, I am not sure who is telling you MS Office on Crossover running on Linux is no good. I run MS Office 2010 under Crossover and it runs very well. I am not sure I have seen any problems using Office this way. But I must admit, I am an infrequent user of MS Office. Libre Office really

Re: [Evolution] I/O operation timing out

2013-12-02 Thread Robert Seward
Fedora 18. Evo 3.6.2 I get timeouts on some accounts (usually gmail) about once a month or so. The timeouts will persist for a day or two and then things will return to normal (no timeouts at all). I have a single Internet connection, a Charter cable connection. Sometimes during these time

Re: [Evolution] Reply to Sender does same thing as Reply to All

2013-12-01 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Ralf, Fedora 18 ships with Evo 3.6.4. This combination is very stable for me. The only crashes I have are when Evolution is open for 6 or more weeks. I receive a lot of e-mail and restarting Evolution is required after a couple of weeks. Otherwise the mail client works well for me. HTH

Re: [Evolution] Idealism face plants against asphalt [Was: downloads page]

2013-08-27 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Tom, Other projects just give 2 or 3 pre-compiled downloads on their sites. I take it that this project doesn't have the skill-set to provide such a thing? Is that why people are getting so defensive about Evolution's inability to provide what every other project seems to be able to

Re: [Evolution] Minor annoyance with scroll wheel

2013-07-17 Thread Robert Seward
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 14:10 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 22:12 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10 Evo, Arch, GNOME 3.8 Evo 3.6.4, Fedora 18, Cinnamon 7 year old USB Logitech Mouse Wheel works perfectly in Evo. Maybe the KDE desktop is

Re: [Evolution] How to start fresh with Evo ?

2013-03-04 Thread Robert Seward
Hi Reid, I can't answer your start from scratch question. I can suggest that you could create a new test UNIX account to try a from scratch configuration. Create the new user. Configure Evolution to connect to your server. And then judge how well 3.6.2 works for you then. When testing POP thusly

[Evolution] Invalid folder URI in message send post-processing

2013-02-04 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Everyone, I just upgraded from Fedora 14 to Fedora 18 which uses Evolution 3.6.3. Most things are working great. I restored my e-mail boxes using the Backup and Restore Settings of Evolution. However when I send e-mails I receive this message: Your message was sent, but an error

Re: [Evolution] Invalid folder URI in message send post-processing

2013-02-04 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Andre, My response is inline with yours. On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 19:21 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 12:29 -0500, Robert Seward wrote: However when I send e-mails I receive this message: In Evolution, click Help. Click Contents. Scroll down to Common Mail

Re: [Evolution] Cleaning up 8gb of archived email

2012-08-18 Thread Robert Seward
On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 17:45 -0800, Portsample wrote: At this point I am suspecting that my 8gb general inbox is the cause of this problem. Any suggestions? TIA once again. Although I didn't have a 8 GB inbox, I had a 800 MB Inbox a four years ago or so. Evolution became very unstable

Re: [Evolution] [solved] Re: evolution without gnome/gnome panel - how to get a tray icon?

2012-07-07 Thread Robert Seward
On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 19:28 -0300, Fábio wrote: Thanks a lot man, but I decided to switch to Thunderbird. This won't affect you in the short term. However it might affect you in the long term.

Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

2012-06-20 Thread Robert Seward
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 15:41 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: I know people will say in this day and age etc. etc. but as a mail admin on machines with limited resources, big messages are a PAIN. I agree with Pete. Use Dropbox or what ever web server you have access to post large files to. Give

Re: [Evolution] FAQ vs User Docs [was: reanimation of backup]

2012-03-14 Thread Robert Seward
See my response below: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 09:57 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 14:42 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: I'm the one to blame as I added this. IMO anything that helps the user should be in one central place - in the user docs. I don't consider the user docs

Re: [Evolution] evolution 3.0 - contacts sync problem with google apps contacts

2011-04-15 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Mike, On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 20:55 -0500, mike.h...@yr20.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is the correct place to raise this issue or not. Please advise. I'm running the Fedora 15 64 bit beta with Evolution 3.0.0. Whenever I setup an addressbook to be sync'd with my contacts in my

Re: [Evolution] Current Directory Structure - Evolution 2.32.1

2011-04-06 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Matthew, See my comments in line. Cheers, Rob On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 17:28 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 15:02 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: There is http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Where_does_Evolution_store_my_data.3F If something is missing, feel free

Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

2010-12-22 Thread Robert Seward
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:30 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 13:19 +, Pete Biggs wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 04:10 -0500, dar...@ontrenet.com wrote: Huh? Many people don't leave their messages on ISP servers because of quotas, Get a better ISP. so then

Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

2010-12-20 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Darren, I have had problems with my large Evolution Inbox and Sent mail boxes. I took the steps described below to improve the performance of Evolution. I too noticed Evolution getting slow and performing like a dog. Also Expunges were not completing for me. I moved my clutter from Inbox

Re: [Evolution] Help attachments, incoming gmail, MAPI exchange connector

2010-09-02 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Tory, On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 19:00 -0700, Tory M Blue wrote: Okay running F12, Evolution 2.28.3. First I can't seem to send attachments that anyone can open or read without major work on their end. This work around requires a web server you have access to place files on. Sometimes I

Re: [Evolution] Summary and folder mismatch after trying the usual fixes

2010-08-23 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Zak, My Inbox grew to 573MB from 1999-2008. Evolution started choking on it for me. Periodic crashes. Very frustrating. My solution was to move my original 573 MB inbox to a different folder name and let Evolution create a new Inbox. After I did this Evolution was much more stable. If

Re: [Evolution] copying contacts from google to the local contact list

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Eddie, Evolution can sync contact information from your Google mail account. http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8226-how-to-sync-evolution-with-googles-pim-apps I personally sync my contacts between Evolution and GMail and it works well. However I use Evolution as a read-only

Re: [Evolution] Contacts Synch/Read Question...

2010-07-23 Thread Robert Seward
I missed the original e-mail. Sorry for top posting, but this message is short anyway. I use evolution to sync with my Google Contacts and it works well. I must admit I only make changes on the Google side and they come trickling back to my evolution client. I have a T-Mobile G1 Android phone

Re: [Evolution] Evolution Plugins

2010-07-14 Thread Robert Seward
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 16:04 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 15:22 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Heh, I've been waiting for more news on developing Evo plugins using Mono. http://psankar.blogspot.com/2007/10/write-evolution-plugins-using-mono-c.html Sadly, it

[Evolution] Evolution Plugins

2010-07-13 Thread Robert Seward
Hello, Has anyone on the list ever written their own Evolution Plugin? For instance, is it possible for a plug in to override the behavior of the Composer's Send Button? E.g. before the e-mail is sent, the plug in could verify change the format of the message to HTML, if that is the receiver's

Re: [Evolution] generating message list problem

2010-02-26 Thread Robert Seward
Hello Drew, On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:23 +0100, drew wrote: Hi all, I used be able to open up evolution and my inbox was just there. Now it can take almost a minute to generate a list. I have increased the size of the swap file to 2gb its got 2gb of RAM and I have radically pruned the

Re: [Evolution] generating message list problem

2010-02-26 Thread Robert Seward
I hate posting inline (top posting Nazis feel my scorn!). See my response below: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 20:51 +0100, drew wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:38 -0500, Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 20:19 +0100, drew wrote: What is mutt? blasphemy!! www.mutt.org I use mutt

Re: [Evolution] Suddenly lots of good stuff in the junk folder

2010-01-03 Thread Robert Seward
According to slashdot.org, spamassassin incorrectly identifies mail dated in the year 2010 as spam. I believe spamassassin community has adjusted their rules to correct this problem. Cheers, Rob On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 10:09 -0200, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: Is a spamassassin problem, not an

Re: [Evolution] Cannot empty trash

2009-11-19 Thread Robert Seward
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 00:46 +1100, John Ross wrote: Let's try a little role-play... You, the developer, have created a GUI app that regularly corrupts its own index files. You have been told about the bug some time ago and done some research, now you have turned up to a meeting with your PM

Re: [Evolution] suggestion for evolution

2009-09-03 Thread Robert Seward
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 22:21 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 19:09 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 17:59 -0700, Jeff Barnes wrote: Since Linux may become more popular in the future to where nongeeks use it I would like to suggest a slight

Re: [Evolution] Heads Up: Merging kill-bonobo this weekend

2009-08-26 Thread Robert Seward
This is a silly question.. What are the advantages of removing bonobo as a dependency for Evolution? Thanks, Rob On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 16:48 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: This is a heads up that I'm going to attempt to finally merge the kill-bonobo branch this coming weekend (August 29/30).

Re: [Evolution] Trash and Compose wierdness !? -[SOLVED -- I hope]

2009-08-16 Thread Robert Seward
-0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:19 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi Rob; On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:00 -0400, Robert Seward wrote: Hello William, William, in your case you might be able to use mutt (or something similar) to strategically delete

Re: [Evolution] Trash and Compose wierdness !? -[SOLVED -- I hope]

2009-08-14 Thread Robert Seward
Hello William, I had a similar problem. Since Fedora 9 I was having problems expunging my whole Inbox (it was 900 MB or something). I was hopeful an upgrade to Fedora 10 would fix my problem. It did not. Over the course of several months, I had thousands of e-mails accumulate that could not be

[Evolution] Inbox Expunge Fails with a solution

2009-07-12 Thread Robert Seward
Hello, I had a quite old Inbox (835 MB worth). When I upgraded to Fedora 10, expunging my Inbox started to fail. Evolution would spin it wheels for quite some time and finally report the expunge had failed. I tried to split my Inbox up into messages from 2000-2008 and leave only 2009 messages in

Re: [Evolution] Problem viewing calendars on multiple machines

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Seward
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 13:27 +, Chris G wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:53:05AM +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: Minor correction: it is not SyncML the protocol which limits the kinds of data that can be exchanged, it is SyncML server XYZ or SyncML client ABC which only support

[Evolution] I am unable to Expunge my inbox.

2008-12-02 Thread Robert Seward
Hello, I am new to the list but I am having problems expunging my Inbox. Evolution 2.24.1 (Fedora 10) The expunge reaches 55% and then dies with a message: Mail file and summary are out of sync even after a sync. (From memory; Actual message might be slightly different.) My Inbox file is

Re: [Evolution] I am unable to Expunge my inbox.

2008-12-02 Thread Robert Seward
I can't expunge my Inbox file. I was hoping someone on the list had discovered a work around for a similar problem. Thank you, Rob On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 17:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 15:34 -0500, Robert Seward wrote: Hello, I am new to the list but I am

Re: [Evolution] I am unable to Expunge my inbox.

2008-12-02 Thread Robert Seward
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 19:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 18:22 -0500, Robert Seward wrote: Hello Patrick, The Inbox file is local. My /tmp directory is on my root partition. I have 20 GB free on root. FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted