Re: [Evolution] a couple of issues

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Evolution will never ever be made to dial your modem, this is way out of
scope of this project. This is a job for your unix scripting skills.

Jeff

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 10:26, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> Am Don, 2002-05-09 um 05.27 schrieb Not Zed: 
>     On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 13:36, Danny Wilson wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     > 
>     > I'm a new user, having installed linux a few times but never really
>     > committing to it. Until now, and that was mainly due to Evolution.
>     > Anyway, I'm not sure what's been discussed already, but here goes...
>     > 
>     > - Backing up. What's the best way to back up my mail and then get back
>     > to where I was if something bad happened, say a hard drive failure. Can
>     > I just copy a folder?
>     
>     Yes.  Just copy them as normal files.
>     
>     > - Is there a way to change the default columns or to change to columns
>     > in all the folders?
>     
>     apparently 1.1.x has something like this.
>     
>     > - Now this is probably a feature wish. When Evolution is automatically
>     > checking mail accounts I'd like it not to pop up an alert that I have to
>     > clear when it gets an error. Rather just ignore it and try again later,
>     > it's most likely the connection or the other server anyway and it's a
>     > matter of waiting for it to come good again. I'm sure this must bug
>     > other people with always on internet connections. The pop-ups could just
>     > come up when the mail check is manually initiated.
>     
>     If the popups are there, it doesn't stop it checking later, so you can
>     just leave it there and ignore it.
>     
> I think it would be great to have an option to disable those popups
> for each account, too.
> Also it would be nice to have an option to make Evolution dial into
> the internet automagically
> when fetching mail (ie: let it execute a custom shell command before
> fetching mail)
>
> Just my 2 (Euro-)Cent
>
>
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