[Evolution] Re: evolution digest, Vol 1 #480 - 8 msgs
Alan Millar
alan.millar@lpcorp.com
Fri, 05 Sep 2003 08:47:06 -0700
Oops, yes, I meant the Informix settings that you changed on Silver.
- Alan
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 03:26, evolution-request@lists.ximian.com wrote:
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> 1. Re: Inline UUencode support re-added to newest snaps (Shawn Walker)
> 2. Re: Copy message before sending (guenther)
> 3. custom recurring appointment (J. Toll)
> 4. Re: email synchronisation (Bret Comstock Waldow)
> 5. Re: Messed up my fonts for Evolution (Bret Comstock Waldow)
> 6. Re: custom recurring appointment (Ted Anderson)
> 7. Re: Evolution 1.4.5 plans (Tim Gibson)
> 8. Re: Can I extract email addresses from emails? (Toby A Inkster)
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> Message: 1
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Inline UUencode support re-added to newest snaps
> From: Shawn Walker <swalker@theiqgroup.com>
> To: evolution@ximian.com
> Organization: The IQ Group, Inc.
> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:24:23 -0500
>
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 14:06, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > ok, I gather people don't care about this feature... should I just
> > remove it? :-)
>
> Sadly I don't use any broken email programs to be able to test it ;)
>
> --
> Shawn Walker <swalker@theiqgroup.com>
> The IQ Group, Inc.
>
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> Message: 2
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Copy message before sending
> From: guenther <guenther@rudersport.de>
> To: Axel Mueller <axel.mueller@iwe.uni-karlsruhe.de>
> Cc: evolution@lists.ximian.com
> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 04:00:23 +0200
>
>
> > > Special words come in handy, to sort on projects. Like the [Evolution]
> > > in the subject in this list -- you even can filter on words in the body.
> >
> > In principle: yes. But, usually the project name is not in the subject
> > or body of the email. I think it is then not possible to apply a
> > reasonable filter.
>
> OK, I admit there are cases, where filtering may not work.
>
> However, as you wanna filter *outgoing* mail, *you* are writing the
> mail. What I had in mind is one of the following methods and should not
> do any harm on closed projects:
>
> 1) Set a special [project-x] to any subject (at the end for more
> convenient subject reading) and filter on them. This very likely will
> survive replies.
>
> 2) You even could do something similar in the body, first line for
> example.
>
> Using flags like this are a lot faster, than struggling with the mouse
> at all and selecting a folder.
>
>
> > I'm looking for a button ("folder to copy sent mail") which will open a
> > dialog to choose an email folder where the email I send will be stored.
> > If I don't press the button, the default folder (sent) will be used.
> > I think I have to put this on the wishlist.
>
> Honestly, I don't get the point, where this should be faster, than using
> the currently supported style:
>
> Have you considered placing the default sent messages folder (and maybe
> the project folders) on the shortcut bar[1]? You can move the mail by
> drag-n-drop to the folder tree or the shortcut bar, to sort them easily.
>
> Maybe this is a practicable way for you right now?
>
> ...guenther
>
>
> [1] The shortcut bar can have small icons to hold more of them. And you
> can create new shortcut groups.
>
>
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> Message: 3
> From: "J. Toll" <t011-ximian@t011.com>
> Reply-To: t011-ximian@t011.com
> To: evolution@lists.ximian.com
> Date: 04 Sep 2003 20:18:58 -0600
> Subject: [Evolution] custom recurring appointment
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 on gentoo linux and I'm trying to
> create a recurring appointment. I see that you can set the recurrence
> for none, simple, or custom. But the custom recurrence radio control is
> ghosted so that I can't use it. Is there a way to enable this feature?
> Or is this a feature that doesn't exist yet in Evolution? BTW, what
> options does the custom feature provide? I'm trying to create a
> recurring appointment that happens on the third Friday of every month.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> J.
>
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> Message: 4
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] email synchronisation
> From: Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@alum.mit.edu>
> To: Tony Sequeira <tony@sequeira.com>
> Cc: evolution@lists.ximian.com
> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 22:27:06 -0400
>
> On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 06:39, Tony Sequeira wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a desktop which uses Evo as the MUA. I am installing Linux onm
> > an obsolete IBM thinkpad. I am planning on using Evo on the laptop too.
> >
> > However, I have no idea how to synchronise email (including accounts,
> > contacts and the like) between the 2 machines. Any clues and/or ideas
> > gratefully accepted.
>
> The mail files, etc. are just files. If you accept different mail on
> both machines, you'll have to find some special way to sychronize them,
> but if you sync-the files, receive mail on *only* one, then
> sync-the-files you could just use "rsync" to keep the files up to date
> between the machines.
>
> If you sync, receive mail on one, receive *other* mail on the other,
> want-to-sync, you can't use the synchronize-the-containing-files
> approach. You'll have to come up with something more exotic, like
> writing a program to extract mails from the files on both machines and
> merge them.
>
> Evolution does allow importing a mail, etc. file - perhaps that merges
> duplicates. I haven't tried it.
>
> Cheers,
> Bret
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Messed up my fonts for Evolution
> From: Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@alum.mit.edu>
> To: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm>
> Cc: evolution@lists.ximian.com
> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 22:32:21 -0400
>
> On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 21:36, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > I somehow managed to mess up my fonts (noticed this in Evolution),
> > currently using 1.4.4 in Gnome 2.2. Could someone tell me what the
> > defaults are so I can change this back (and where to change it, again).
>
> Tools - Settings - Mail Preferences - General tab
> Message Fonts
> mine has the "Use the same fonts as other applications" box checked.
> greyed out selections are "Sans" and "Monospace"
>
> >
> > Also, while I'm on fonts, whenever I receive HTML formatted email that
> > contains apostrophes (or other special punctuation), my fonts render
> > these as 'octals' (at least that's what it looks like). Where can I
> > change this as well?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> Message: 6
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] custom recurring appointment
> From: Ted Anderson <tja@pobox.com>
> To: t011-ximian@t011.com
> Cc: Evolution List <evolution@lists.ximian.com>
> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 07:04:33 +0200
>
> Custom is greyed out because you're not able to create a custom
> recurrence. However, you can import an appointment with a custom
> recurrence from iCal or another calendar program.
>
> The recurrence you want is actually a simple one: choose simple,
> monthly, third, Friday.
>
> --
> Ted
>
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:18, J. Toll wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 on gentoo linux and I'm trying to
> > create a recurring appointment. I see that you can set the recurrence
> > for none, simple, or custom. But the custom recurrence radio control is
> > ghosted so that I can't use it. Is there a way to enable this feature?
> > Or is this a feature that doesn't exist yet in Evolution? BTW, what
> > options does the custom feature provide? I'm trying to create a
> > recurring appointment that happens on the third Friday of every month.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > J.
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.5 plans
> From: Tim Gibson <timbo@southnet.co.nz>
> To: evolution@lists.ximian.com
> Organization: Tim & Donna's Home
> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:14:51 +1200
>
>
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>
> Please fix EAddress....
>
> It crashes all the time and I can't sync my Palm Vx with it enabled.
>
> Regards
> Tim
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 11:16, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > Hello!
> >=20
> > It's that time again... We have reached a critical mass of fixes, and
> > we are planning to make an Evolution 1.4.5 tarball on September 12 (it's
> > a Friday), for a full binary release sometime in the week following
> > that.
> >=20
> > The release will be made from the following modules, all from the
> > evolution-1-4-branch:
> >=20
> > gal =09
> > gtkhtml=09
> > evolution
> >=20
> > Stable snapshots are available on Red Carpet for a bunch of platforms.=20
> > Since we are close to release, this is a good time to install them and
> > let us know whether we broke anything. ;-)
> >=20
> > Translators: we have broken strings again :-( , so we hope this advance
> > notice will give you time to update the translations... Please let us
> > know if you need more time; in order to make sure your translations make
> > it to the final release, you should commit them by the end of Thursday
> > (GMT) at the latest.
> >=20
> > Thanks for your contribution!
> >=20
> > Bye,
> > -- Ettore
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
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> Message: 8
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Can I extract email addresses from emails?
> From: Toby A Inkster <fundraisingadmin@national-childbirth-trust.co.uk>
> To: evolution@lists.ximian.com
> Organization: The National Childbirth Trust (UK Office)
> Date: 05 Sep 2003 09:18:53 +0100
>
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 17:50, guenther wrote:
> > However, just started playing with this topic, as I got curious. This
> > perl one-liner does the trick pretty well -- although it will catch
> > unwanted header infos (like Message-Id:) as well, if it looks like a
> > valid email address.
> >
> > $ perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while ( s/([\w.-]+@([\w-]+\.)+\w{2,})// )' ~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox
>
> Better:
>
> egrep -vi '((Message-ID)|(References)|(X-Evolution-Source))\:' ~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while ( s/([\w.-]+@([\w-]+\.)+\w{2,})// )
>
> Still by no means perfect.