Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.28.1: Incorrect quoting of text emails

2018-08-05 Thread bg
it's pretty simple to > reproduce) would be nice. > bg: Why format emails in HTML in the first place? A great many people view HTML-coded emails, and not unreasonably IMO, as poor security, since AFAIK they can contain little ride-along malware poison pills buried in their code. I know a

Re: [Evolution] From Tuesday August 7, this list will no longer be available in digest form

2018-08-04 Thread bg
dnight > (00:00 UTC) on Monday August 6th. > > bg: Thanks, guys, for your tireless efforts. So glad to see the (&$^%& Digest suffer its well-deserved demise. No longer will we have to suffer those woefully unhelpful subject lines, or the 480-line responses where six lines would h

Re: [Evolution] Disable Digests? [was: evolution-list Digest, Vol 156, Issue 61]

2018-07-28 Thread bg
 C. Andrews Lavarre wrote: > As to the digest:  > > • As a newbie here I would much prefer a normal Internet group (e.g., > Google Groups) over > email of any sort, but if email it must be then the digest is better > than a constant flurry of incomings. bg: I am both amused an

[Evolution] limits on bcc?

2018-05-20 Thread bg
3.18.5.2 on Ubunto 16.04 Is it possible that Evo imposes a limitation on the number of addresses that the BCC field is allowed to contain? I have had a couple of recent cases where a list was truncated from  its original count ??? I find no mention of such a limit in the "HELP" files, but I can

Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

2018-02-16 Thread bg
bg: > > So what compelling reason would there be for us to change to IMAP? > > We danged sure don't do any "sharing" with anyone else,and being  > > retired, foresee no chance that we ever would. So - IMAP - ??? Why? > >   Pete Biggs wrote: > The issue thou

Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

2018-02-15 Thread bg
MAP client, including on your phone. > > poc > ___ > bg: Okay, Patrick, that raises a question. I stick to POP and always have, and my bride and I each have both iPhones and iPads which we regularly use to fetch our mail traffic when travel

Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-04 Thread bg
bg: > > When I copy an email address into the buffer,  it refuses to paste > in > > any of the address fields. > Andre: > What is "the buffer" and how do you "copy" and how do you "paste"? > bg: The buffer is a basic system function used b

[Evolution] copy & paste oddness

2017-12-04 Thread bg
Ubuntu 16.04 Evo 3.18.5.2 This only showed up in the latest version - never a problem previously. When I copy an email address into the buffer,  it refuses to paste in any of the address fields. I find it difficult to believe that anyone could have conceived this as an enhancement, so would

[Evolution] Composing editor selection

2017-05-16 Thread bg
Ubuntu 16.04 with Evo 3.18.5.2 Evo has apparently changed what's being used as the internal editor for composing -  and not for the better. I want to change to gedit or almost anything else than what's on offer. But when I consult the "HELP" files, it directs me to , and when I click that

[Evolution] upgrade woes Part Deux

2017-05-01 Thread bg
On Saturday I posted a query about my new 3.18.5.2 claim that it has no network connection. I have verification that this is an Evo problem, because my browser is connecting to the Net just fine, as are my iPad and iPhone, which both, by the way, are using the same mail server, with all the same

[Evolution] Upgrade trashes network connection?

2017-04-29 Thread bg
I just took the risky step of accepting Ubuntu's relentless hectoring to upgrade my 14.04 to 16.04. Everything came out fine (except for the forced shift to Unity) except for Evolution (3.18.5.2). It is unable to see the (wired ethernet) network connection. How I know this is an Evo problem: 1.

Re: [Evolution] Feature request: Signatures without '--'

2016-07-20 Thread bg
, Mabuse <mab...@buente.de> wrote: > > Hello! > > I would like to place a feature request regarding signatures in > evolution: > > I find those preceeding "--" before signatures in e-mails very > disturbing. bg: Then you are not thinking it completel

Re: [Evolution] top versus bottom posting and the control-Lfunction

2009-10-20 Thread bg
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 12:46, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 21:10 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día martes, octubre 20, 2009 a las 02:57:10 -0400, Derek McDaniel escribió: Its much easier to top post to non-mailing list clients. bg: That is an astonishing piece

Re: [Evolution] top versus bottom posting

2009-10-20 Thread bg
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 12:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I took the view that Evo encourages top-posting because it places the cursor at the top of the reply. bg: Only for the irremediably clueless and rude, or those who haven't had the reason pointed out to them. PO: They responded

Re: [Evolution] stability/xavier

2009-10-09 Thread bg
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 18:09 -0700, bg wrote: Maybe my version of Evo is too ancient (a distinct possibility) Xavier Bestel wrote: Wow .. you're using Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) !! I didn't known it was possible to still use such an ancient beast. How old is your linux distro

Re: [Evolution] stability/Reid

2009-10-09 Thread bg
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:22, Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:03:18AM -0700, bg wrote: Older than dirt - Core2. It's pretty stable, though. The only real problem that's beginning to get annoying is the Mozilla 1.7 browser, with the increasing number of web pages

Re: [Evolution] stability/killian

2009-10-08 Thread bg
to a yellow pad and pencil. Yikes! Chuck... bg: I guess that means you fall into the care-less category. Up yours. There are multiple levels of ease of readability in emails, especially on discussion lists. *You* may be so thick as to have not noticed, but some of the rest of us see

Re: [Evolution] stability/williams

2009-10-08 Thread bg
is to encourage the user to drill down through the original post, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: While all this is true, I agree completely, it is utterly pointless to point it out. The vast vast majority of people DO NOT CARE about netiquette (or the convenience of subsequent readers). bg: How

Re: [Evolution] stability/DavidL

2009-10-08 Thread bg
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 09:48, David L wrote: This only happens with certain emails... these emails get a little dotted box around the text of the original message whenever I click anywhere in the message. Any ideas? bg: I wish I knew an answer to that, but I doubt

Re: [Evolution] migration/Biggs

2009-04-30 Thread bg
bg: In playing with the trial installation on another box, I've verified that Evo doesn't recognize importing of those elements from previous Evo versions. Pete Biggs wrote: Not exactly true. When upgrading, Evo will upgrade data from previous versions if necessary. However I fear

Re: [Evolution] migration strategies - Help!

2009-04-30 Thread bg
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 03:19, Art Alexion wrote: Why would you install 8.10? The current version is 9.04, and the long term support release is 8.04. bg: According to what I thought I saw when I first visited the Ubuntu site a few weeks ago, 8.10 was listed as the latest LTS release. It's also

Re: [Evolution] migration/alexion

2009-04-30 Thread bg
Art Alexion wrote: Lastly, when you say upgrade, are you seriously considering trying to install a relatively new Debian based distro on top of a very old rpm based distro? bg: Not at all - I used the word in the generic, not the technical sense. I figure to install Ubuntu separately, first

Re: [Evolution] migration/biggs

2009-04-30 Thread bg
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 06:09, Pete Biggs wrote: As someone else said, the best way would be to upload all your mail to an IMAP server and then re-download it to your new installation - you could possibly set up your own IMAP server locally to do it. bg: That's doable - I already have

[Evolution] migration strategies - Help!

2009-04-29 Thread bg
I presently run Fedora Core2 and Evo 1.4.6. Yeah, I know :-) I am about to sketch out a strategy for upgrading to (32-bit) Ubuntu 8.10, which includes Evo 2.24.3, although what with the rather aggressive nature of the synaptic package manager, I will doubtless be involuntarily upgraded to a