[Evolution] Comments and questions on the Evolution mailer

[Svante Signell]

Thank you for a prompt reply. Further comments below.

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 15:46 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 07:44 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have been using Evolution (both 1.x and 2.0) as mailer for a while now
> > and the current version is 2.03. I have some usability questions and
> > comments on this mailer:
> I'll presume you mean 2.0.3, there is no such version as 2.03.
Yes, my version is 2.0.3
 
> > 1. Is it possible to remove attachments, to save disk space?
> no 
Is this hard to implement? In Emacs VM the removed attachement name
remains in the original mail. 

> > 2. Changing time format in the message list area to 24 hour format,
> > without changing the LOCALE. I have not not found out how to do this yet
> > and it is _very_ annoying to use the AM/PM format.
> no, you will need to change the locale/lang or at least LC_TIME
> variable (i presume).
Changing LC_TIME is not a good solution. For example, changing LC_TIME
to sv_SE.ISO-8859-1 gives the date and time in Swedish. I want something
like the date format in a terminal w/o setting LC_TIME: E.g. date in
coreutils results in: Wed Dec 22 08:32:32 CET 2004

> > 2. Colors, the default enhancement color for e.g. the mail folder is
> > dark blue over black text. This is almost unreadable. In the message
> > list area the colors are dark blue over white text, this is Ok.
> thats 2 point 2's.  Hmm, this depends on your theme.  The default
> looks clealry readable to me, perhaps you have some monitor setting
> issues.  Try a different theme perhaps, the folder list is the gtk
> default, the other is an evolution customisation.
Thanks, I will look into this later.

> > 3. Sort and find unread mails. Moving to next unread mail seems to be
> > possible with . and ], but I have not found an meny entry. Furthermore,
> Tried looking in the view->goto menu?
Found it thanks. I tried to right-click on in the message list area and
found nothing there. Also no main menu icons are visible, only previous
and next. Is this customisable?

> > how to sort mails so that the unread mails are last or first in the
> > message list area. Sorting in cronological order is made impossible with
> > the default way of showing the date/time of messages. At least it does
> > not result in the correct sorting order...
> Try clicking on the message status icon column.  Or doing a complex
> sort via a custom view.
Thanks. However, right-clicking on sort ascending/descending in the date
column does _not_ give the correct sort order, for example Mon and
Yesterday entries are mixed, and today is Wednesday...

> > 4. Replying without including the message text (except to remove all
> > text manually)
> File a feature request I guess.  That isn't a reply anyway, since
> reply implies you have content to reply to. 
How do I do that?

> > 5. Replying and being able to select to include/not to include
> > attachements. 
> Not possible.
:-(

> > 6. Possibility to use e.g. Emacs keyboard commands for editing text. I
> > have been using Emacs VM for a long time and VM still has many
> > advantages compared to the more modern Evolution.
> This is a gnome setting, try your user settings
Thanks, I will try later.

> > 7. FAQ: When clicking on the FAQ
> > http://ximian.com/products/evolution/faq.html you are forwarded to
> > http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html which is
> > _not_ an FAQ, only a brief feature description of Evolution...
> Oh well.   The whole ximian site is deprecated, it sounds like you're
> starting from the wrong spot.  Try forge.novell.com and looking for
> the evolution project.
When subscribing to this list I got an email with this link. Maybe the
links in the confirmation mail entitled: Welcome to the "evolution
mailing list" should be updated.

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Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>