Re: [Evolution] Evolution vs Mutt

[Jose Celestino <japc co sapo pt>]

Words by Jeffrey Stedfast [Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:52:08PM -0400]:
> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 06:51, Jose Celestino wrote:
> > Hi,

[bla bla bla]

> > - duplicated messages: A way to display messages that are duplicated
> >     within a mailbox so that I can remove them or deal with them in
> >     a special way;
>
> if you can come up with an algorithm that will work for this, then sure.
> But you should read the archives from a week or 2 ago to see why this is
> not so easy.

I've been out of work, vacations at last, and I deleted most of the
thousands of mails I had as a backlog.

Anyway, I understand the difficulty. I'll check the archives to get
synced with this...

> > - color by filters: Display messages in the index page with different
> >     colours, acording to defined filters, so that I can jump straight
> >     away to them (I use a crowded inbox most of the time);
>
> You can make filters set a message's colour. I don't get what you're
> wanting here?

You are right (of course), I haven't checked the filters menu well enough.
But, how do I apply filters (CTRL+Y) to all messages? Do I have to
select them all? Can't this be done automagically to all (arriving)
messages? Can't I change the line background as well as foreground?
Am I asking too much?

> > - delete already deleted: I cannot delete a message already deleted(?!).
> >     This may seem silly but sometimes I enter in "delete frenzy mode"
> >     and I would like a CTRL+D to jump to next undeleted message, not to
> >     block;
>
> This is filed in bugzilla and seems to have cropped up fairly recently.
> Assuming it wasn't a change mandated by UI, then it should be fixed by
> 1.2.0

Ok, I didn't knew, haven't used evolution for a while now, thought it was
a "feature" :)).

> > - view mail on same window: What about viewing mail in the index window?
> >     That would make evolution a much more keyboard friendly app;
>
> Huh? this is the default.

No. If you press [ENTER] in a message it opens in a new windows, not over
the index view. But this is not really that important.

> > - global configs (view threaded, column sizes) and display settings:
> >     I noticed that some settings, threaded view, the size of the fields
> >     in the index view, can only be changed in a folder/mailbox basis,
> >     this is annoying as I have more than 200 local mailboxes and I would
> >     like to change their setting in a global way;
>
> column sizes can be set globally by changing them in one and then going
> to View->Current View and defining your own view or something. Hmmm, I
> can't remember how to do it now. Basically, I remember just changing the
> sizes in the default view and saving that over the "Messages" view which
> made all other folders change too.

Right. Now I know how to do it. Nice.

One more thing, is the font in the message (index) display customizable?

Thanks Jeff. I'm one step closer to using evolution :)

> Jeff
>
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> Jeffrey Stedfast
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Jose Celestino <japc co sapo pt>
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