[Evolution] Character encoding and expunge?

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 15:17, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> Hi..
> 
> I have been using Evolution awhile but lately I have been using
> Thunderbird because of two things that annoys me about Evolution.
> And I have just downloaded the latest development snapshot for SuSE 9.1
> but sadly, the two things are still there...
> 
> Mainly, evol. doesn't show every mail correctly regarding character
> enconding.. Some mail looks like this..:
> 
>                            Subject: 
> Hva som skal st=?ISO-8859-1?B?5Q==?=
> I mail som sendes u
> 
> Why isn't this shown like this ??:
> 
> Subject: Hva som skal stå I mail som sendes u

because the subject encoding is broken and does not conform to the spec
(which means this is probably spam anyway, so who cares???)

for more information, read rfc2047 and rfc0822

> 
> 
> Second, why isn't there an option that make it possible to enable "hard"
> delete of mail instead of delete and then have to press Ctrl-E to
> expunge the mail. This should be a small task to implement, the code is
> already there, just combine it... :)

because it's a lot slower??? besides, EXPUNGE expunges the mailbox, not
just a singleton message. why is it really that bad that it waits to
expunge them all at once? makes more sense to me...

> 
> 
> And also, when using IMAP, why isn't the seen flag marked when I have
> read the email? I have to eg. go to another folder en back again to make
> sure the mail is marked as read..

because it's a lot slower??? :-)

flag syncing is delayed until either:

1. a timeout expires
2. folder change

> 
> 
> I must say that I really like Evolution and I like the look of the new
> 2.0 version but until these things are fixed, thunderbird is my game...

then I guess you'll have to stick with thunderbird...

Jeff