Re: [Evolution] Recovering cached mail

2007-02-08 Thread Andrew Montalenti
If those really are rfc822 mail files, you could probably just concatenate them together (which would produce an mbox file) and copy the mbox file to ~/.evolution/mail/local/. Something like: cd ~/.evolution/mail/exchange/acct/personal/sub/folders/Saved\ Items/ cat * cache-mbox mv cache-mbox

Re: [Evolution] Recovering cached mail

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Montalenti
the question is now: How does one (easily!) convert an RFC 822 file to the appropriate evolution local directory format? Thanks for your input Andrew. Cheers James On 09/02/07, Andrew Montalenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If those really are rfc822 mail files, you could probably just

[Evolution] Search boxes and UI meddling

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Montalenti
Hi, I've been an Evolution user for a long time. The main reason I use Evolution is for its search/indexing features, since I have huge mail boxes and like to be able to search through them quickly. In recent versions of Evolution (I guess beyond 2.7, I'm using 2.8.1) the Search Box at the top

Re: [Evolution] Search boxes and UI meddling

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Montalenti
:54 -0500, Andrew Montalenti wrote: Hi, I've been an Evolution user for a long time. The main reason I use Evolution is for its search/indexing features, since I have huge mail boxes and like to be able to search through them quickly. In recent versions of Evolution (I guess beyond

Re: [Evolution] Search boxes and UI meddling

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Montalenti
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:01 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: IMHO, the very idea of having a clickable icon *inside* a text entry box makes me squirm. It's just wrong wrong wrong. An icon in a text box looks like a label or type indicator, not something operational. Lucky for us, we have not

Re: [Evolution] De-integrating Evolution

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Montalenti
, 2007-02-19 at 23:13 +0100, M Wedin wrote: I second this! And I wouldn't be at all sorry if I could use Evolution without having to install Gnome. A great app shouldn't be tied to a specific windowmanager. Just my opinion ... Wed On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:03 -0500, Andrew Montalenti

Re: [Evolution] Reply Outlook Style

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Montalenti
Hi, On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:58 +0200, Thomas Novin wrote: Is it possible to reply Outlook Style? When you have a mail conversation with people using Outlook, it would be nice to be able to reply the same way as they do, not breaking the style of the mail. This is a funny request. My first

[Evolution] Paste quotation and line breaks

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Montalenti
Hi all, I often want to forward someone a piece of an e-mail I've written. I do the natural thing -- go into my Sent box, find the relevant e-mail, copy it, and paste quotation in the Evo composer. But this is what happens: [example] Poor substitute to you actually being there, however :-)

Re: [Evolution] spam filtering

2007-07-22 Thread Andrew Montalenti
Hi Daniel, On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 13:02 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: ... Bogofilter, in my experience. It's not even close. After training, my spamassassin never got better than 90% catch rate, which is still some hundred spams a day for me. Bogofilter is 99.9% at least, probably better.

[Evolution] VFolders of VFolders are gone?

2009-04-06 Thread Andrew Montalenti
Hi evo-list, I just upgraded from Hardy - Intrepid on Ubuntu, which bumped my Evolution version up to 2.24.3. Most of my VFolders are no useless, since I had a whole bunch of VFolders that referenced other VFolders. These worked perfectly well in 2.22 but they don't work at all in 2.24. This

Re: [Evolution] Unread message count (again)

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew Montalenti
Hi, On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:23 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: I disagree. I disagree that the inconsistency is occasional. Rather it is nearly constant. /Occasionally/ the count is correct. 2.24.3 here as well (Ubuntu Intrepid). I agree with Alex. Mis-count is constant. I have a search

[Evolution] Evolution release and major regressions, a longtime user's thoughts

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew Montalenti
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu Hardy to Ubuntu Intrepid. Most of my GNOME software worked well upon upgrade, there were even some improvements. However, a major piece of GNOME software that I use every single day and that is important to both my personal life and business stopped functioning

Re: [Evolution] Evolution release and major regressions, a longtime user's thoughts

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew Montalenti
Art, [reply below] On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:35 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: While I am as frustrated as you with some of the bugs and regressions that you mention, I don't think it is constructive, or even in your self interest, to take such a scolding and tattling tone with people, many of

[Evolution] Evo bug squash?

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew Montalenti
software experience and would have some time to volunteer to this? I'm thinking it could be on an upcoming weekend, to accomodate people's work schedules. Also, what time zone are the core Evolution developers in? Andrew On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:55 -0400, Andrew Montalenti wrote: Art, [reply

Re: [Evolution] Evolution release and major regressions, a longtime user's thoughts

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew Montalenti
Art, On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 13:11 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: And while I agree that the developers should take stock of whether they envision themselves as working on a widely deployed production application, and release accordingly, I think much of the blame may like with the Ubuntu packagers,

Re: [Evolution] Evolution release and major regressions, a longtime user's thoughts

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew Montalenti
Art, one clarification: On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 17:15 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: And that is precisely the problem. N+1 is appropriate for Debian Experimental, but not for Debian Stable. Ubuntu doesn't have those designations, and when a new version of the distro is released, it is released

[Evolution] Solution: Error loading address book

2009-04-20 Thread Andrew Montalenti
I've been wrestling with this problem that has a lot of reports online related to the mysterious message, Error loading address book followed by: We were unable to open this address book. Please check that the path /home/foo/.evolution/addressbook/local/system exists and that you have permission