Re: [Evolution] Character encoding and expunge?

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

> FWIW I'm using Evo 1.4.5 oon Gnome 2.2/RedHat RHEL3 ES with Norwegian
> Bokmål for my system LANG and I have *never* had this problem even with
> mail code expressed by the 2 developers as being wacky. I have no
> problem with the mail deletion/expunge feature which Bjørn complained
> about.

Well, I don't use no_NO as my system LANG, but that should't make any 
difference? (I am using ISO8859-1 as system LANG)

> [...]
>
>
> > > I must say that I really like Evolution and I like the look of the new
> > > 2.0 version but until these things are fixed, thunderbird is my game...
> >
> > then I guess you'll have to stick with thunderbird...
>
>
> As I wrote in another posting, I just spent an utterly miserable
> Saturday implementing Thunderbird 0.6 (English language, 20040502) with
> Courier IMAP 3.0.3, Openldap 2.2.11, Postfix 2.1 and umpteen filters,
> for users who might not be able to use or want Evo. While it has some
> positive points, I was *so* glad to get back to my (Norwegian :) Evo,
> that I can't tell you. Thunderbird has so many disadvantages that most
> users wouldn't want to use it, given Evo as an alternative. Moreover, it
> behaves exactly the same as Evo with regard to deleted mail - one has to
> "compact" folders to expunge, just as with Mozilla Messenger.

Well, actually you don't need to do that in thunderbird! There is an 
option on what thunderbird should do when it deletes a message...
btw, what disadvantages are these??

BTJ