Re: [Evolution] Some Evo 0.8 questions and a problem

[Larry Ewing <lewing helixcode com>]

On 19 Dec 2000 06:33:25 -0800, Garrett Mickelson wrote:
> Mike, 
> to answer some of your questions:
> 1. If you go into the mail configuration under the settings menu, and
> click the mail sources tab, you can then edit the accounts and select
> Remember this password.
> 2. I'm still waiting on this one too. Maybe there is some hidden key
> stroke that does it.

The n and p keys should work in unthreaded mode, I think they still
behave a bit strangely in threaded mode.

> 3. This seems to be a weird one. I have this problem too. What I did to
> solve it though was to unthread the view and sort by new mail, by
> clicking the envelope icon just below the search button. It then showed
> all those "hidden" emails. I stopped using threaded view, because it
> just seemed like mail would get lost. With .8 in threaded view, not only
> does it get lost, but it's marked as new in the message counts.... :-(

The threading hides duplicate messages, unfortunately that means these
messages are not visible to be deleted.  I'm not sure what the final
solution to this will be.

> 4. Hopefully they will be able to get that into 1.0

I think fejj is actively working on adding support for a some forms of
crypto, I'm not sure about the specifics.

> 5. I have yet to have an expunge crash with .8

It should be fixed in CVS already.

> Garrett Mickelson
>
>
> On 18 Dec 2000 23:30:27 -0500, Mike Leone wrote:
> > 1. Is Evo 0.8 supposed to remember POP3 passwords between sessions? Is
> > it a planned feature?
> > 2. Is there a key combination (or menu option) to skip to next unread
> > email, rather than scrolling down the entire list of emails in a folder?
> > 3. I have a couple folders that indicate unread emails (there is a bold
> > number next to the folder name in the folder bar); however, there are no
> > unread emails when I go thru the list of emails in that folder. I made
> > sure to expand all the threads. I see nothing unread; no emails with a
> > closed envelope icon. Any ideas on how to solve this phantom unread
> > indicator?
> > 4. When is PGP encryption planned? Is that a 1.0 feature?
> > 5. I'm still getting crashes on expunging; not always, but still often
> > enuf (4x tonight). The odd thing is .. I will expunge a folder, and the
> > error message references an entirely different folder than the one I was
> > in and expunging.
> >
> > A request:
> >
> > - I hope I'm describing this properly; I don't know the terms to use. In
> > the threaded view, there is a line, with a closed envelope icon, that
> > shows the subject of the thread. Clicking on this entry shows blank in
> > the vierw window; as is proper. But the sender's name on this entry is
> > the sender's name of the first email in the thread. I think it should be
> > blank (wasn't it blank in 0.6?), to better show that this line is NOT
> > actually an email.


--Larry