Re: [Evolution] Several Issues/Suggestions with Evolution

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

Well, asking is not complaining -- but oh well...


> 1. Seeing deleted messages
> I use spamassassin to delete spam. My imap server is remote, so I use a
> local copy with a perl script(imapassassin) to bring in the messages for
> processing, then send the commands to mark the spam for deletion on the
> server, after copying them to a special spam folder for later perusal.
> Typically, when I go into an already running Evolution, it refuses to
> acknowledge any emails were marked for deletion. It may see new mail as
> it comes into that folder, but it still does not see new marks for
> deletion. In order to purge the mail, I have to restart Evolution
> completely.

This one seems to be a fault of the script doing the dirty work for you.


> 3. Killing evolution
> Up to ev1.2, there was a killev command that worked wonderfully. With
> 1.4, you claimed to have fixed the problems, and brought the killev
> functionality into the evolution command itself. Well, I still have the
> same problems(notably ev sitting around waiting for IMAP commands to
> finish, which I won't address here). And your new ev-killing switch does
> not appear to work. I now have to kill each process one by one. And I
> have to do it about once a day, due to problem #1 above.

The new killev is 'evolution --force-shutdown'. However, there was a bug
that only would try to kill Evolution, if called as 'evolution-1.4'.
This has been solved in 1.4.3.

So the short solution is, start Evo as 'evolution-1.4'. Upgrading would
even be better.


> 4. Send/Receive dialog uninformative
> As I mentioned above, my three imap accounts are on the same server.
> When I use Send/Receive, the dialog pops up with a list of the accounts
> it is checking. That would be Server: mail.domain.com, Server:
> mail.domain.com, and of course, Server: mail.domain.com. See a trend
> there? So, which is which?

Well, I remember that *was* email-address server format...


> 5. Order of email accounts on folders bar can't be changed
> Murphy's Law, or a derivative thereof, seems to control my Folders bar.
> My most important email account has landed at the bottom. My second-most
> important account is at the top. I have to scroll often. And lets get
> rid of Summary, Local Folders, and Other Contacts. I never use them.

The Folder Tree displays Summary and Local Folders at the top hard
coded. All other Folders are sorted in alphabetical order [1]. This
includes your IMAP folders as well as VFolders and Other Contacts.

To sort your IMAP accounts by precedence, you never thought aboiut
renaming them, did you? Preface them with a number...

The alphabetical order [1] even applies to all mail folders.

There is absolutely not Murphy involved.


[1]  "Alphabetical order" is controlled by your locale settings. Some
set uppercase before lowercase, some do not, some tread special chars in
a special way, ...


> 6. Save Draft needs a shortcut key
> I'm one of those guys that feels odd writing on paper. Where's the save
> button? In other words, I like the comfort of occasionally hitting save
> as I type. I've saved this email as draft several times already.

Here it goes: Jut edit (as user root) the file

 /usr/share/evolution/1.4/ui/evolution-message-composer.xml

and set the missing accelerator. The following line is in this file just
as this, only missing the accelerator.

 <menuitem name="FileSaveDraft" verb="" _label="Save _Dr\aft"
  accel="*Control*d"/>


...guenther


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