Re: [Evolution] to be usable

[Levente Farkas <lfarkas mindmaker hu>]

Mark Neill wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Levente Farkas wrote:
> > - I'm not able to import my netscape addressbook! without this feature
> >   no one with switch to evo from netscape. I try to export to ldif my
> >   addressbook, but I've got a few "Importer not ready. Wait 5 seconds."
> >   or sometime after the first try seems to import it but the contact
> >   list is empty, sometimes the importer die (crash). if it helps you
> >   I can send my ldif file.
> > - why put a "--" before my signature? the signature in my signature file
> >   is my full signature and I don't would like to add an extra line with
> >   2 dash!
> > - I use imap server to keep my mails. why don't use the imap servers
> >   for draft and sent mails. ok I can set it in the settings but it'd
> >   be more natural defaults.
> > - another thing at the summary just the local mail folders can be
> >   inserted, but all of my mails are on our imap server so what I'd like
>
> Switching from one mail client to another, regardless of which, is a pain
> in the...butt.  You're not getting it any herder going from NS to Evo than
> you would, say, from NS to Outlook, or To Eudora, or Mutt.

there are importers:-) and at least the most popular mailers can be 
supported.

> 1)  0.99-1.snap is not the newest version.  Reports are that the new
> versions support Netscape address importing.  Look for a 0.99-2 version.

I use red-carpet on redhat 7.2 Evolution Snapshot channel (Nightly
snapshots of the Ximian Evolution groupware suite) and there is no
newer package!
 
> 2)  There is a "--\n" before your signature, because technically, that's
> how signatures are supposed to be formatted.  Mail RFC's and
> recommendation documents use this separator to break the signature from
> the body of a message when you do things like reply-wth-quote.

ok. I didn't know about:-(
 
> 3)  Because, IMO, this is silly.  You can't assume everyone will be online
> 100% of the time they are using their mail client.  Many people on dialups
> do offline reading.  Setting the Sent and Draft folders to be, by default,
> online will break such user's setups.  Setting to local by default does
> not break the setup of users who are 100% connected.  Less impact with
> these choices, and as you point out, you can change it, so this isn't a
> real problem.

understand your point.
 
> 4)  This is a limitation of IMAP.  In order to do this, Evo would have to
> constantly refresh the mailbox status from the server.  See the answer to
> #3 as to why assuming 100% connectivity is bad.

not realy in this case those who set it have to be 100% online, those
who not online don't would like to put their folders to the summary.

 -- Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"