Re: [Evolution] SuSE 9.3 Evolution 2.2.1

[Jeremey Wise <Jeremey Wise Agilysys com>]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 10:51 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 09:37 -0400, Jeremey Wise wrote:
> > I have updated my laptop to SuSE Pro 9.3 and am finding many querks
> > which I would like to see if it is a process issue / change or a bug.
> > Here are my evolution related issues.
> >
> > 1) File associations in my SuSE 9.2 (which I believe was evo 2.0.x)
> > worked better. For example .rtf (rich text is only associated with
> > kwrite instead of MSWord under Crossover (which it use to do fine) and I
> > don't know how to fix this and ohter associations which no longer work.
>
> Evolution doesn't touch file associations, they are setup system-wide,
> Evolution just uses them. So this is a distro problem.
This must be a KDE vs Gnome/evolution thing. I can open a .csv file in
konqueror and it opens with excel. I can open a .doc and it opens in
MSword. ....etc..... I will have to poke around and find if it is some
kind of nautalus vs konqueror thing.

> > 2) I use to be able to accept a meeting request sent to me and it would
> > be added into my Exchange calendar by selecting "calendar" with RSVP
> > then remove the RSVP and change the calendar to 'personal' which would
> > duplicate it into my personal calendar which gets synced to my palm
> > pilot. Now I have to accept it into the exchange "calendar" then open
> > and copy it manually into my personal so I can have it archived,
> > offline, and synced. The old way was better... or at least I could get
> > it to work, now it is far more cumbersom.
>
> I have no idea about this one (I don't work on connector)
Fair enough I have cc'd the Connector list to see if someone can comment
on this.
> > 3) For those who remember me on the list I was having to be pushed out
> > of evolution due to two things not in evolution critical to my us
> > instead of Outlook (I have to run both in parallel to do my day job). Is
> > their any hope for:
> >         a) "Reply on behalf of" -> ie I work out of a common mailbox and
> > reply
> > on behalf of to ensure the responses seem to come from that mailbox.
>
> there's no feature request for this in bugzilla tht I'm aware of
>
> >         b) Viewing of "catagories" -> not flags but the Outlook
> > catagories.
>
> I have no idea what this is... you mean like "Flag for Followup" stuff?
Outlook catagories. They can allow the email to be "catagorized" without
changing the email. Issue is I do not believe this is carried across
through to OWA, even the new 2003 portal (which has many of the other
issues I needed solved... aka hope evolution-connector picks up). I have
no access to the new OWA 2003 interface to check so I was hoping the
connector team may have comments on this.
> > They are now setting emails into catagories via these flag options such
> > as "SAN Design Consultation" or "VIP" or "Waiting vendor response" which
> > now I have to run Outlook to view the state of requests in the box to
> > find out what is the status of the email.
> >
> > 3) I have submited a bug against meetings being accepted seems to crash
> > evolution. Stability seems to have stepped backwards. Is it posssible
> > that this is a migration issue? I copied over my .gconf .evolution
> > directories from a USB backup drive after a fresh install. When it
> > started I had a directory which barked about errors with folder
> > "JJ03604" (my quote number / folder) having errors after index. The
> > folder was empty so it deleted the data and it was a small request so I
> > just emailed the design /notes back to myself to reinstate the data but
> > if it would have been a large design I may have had a major issue. Any
> > comments on importation or migration best practices?
> >
> > 4) The migration some how lost the settings for automatic lookup to
> > LDAP / AD. The settings all imported correctly for everything but name
> > lookup.
Fixed it but it was odd that it "uncheked" the box... More of an FYI to
the evo team.
> > 5) I keep trying to change the default "sent" "draft" location of my
> > exchange account to be local so I have a local replica so if I am on the
> > road I have archive of all emails I sent (no to mention corp polocy of
> > delete after 90days is not acceptable to me). Evolution seems to save it
> > ok but next time I open evolutin it sets it back to the
> > "personal/drafts" "personal/sent" which stores in in exchange mailbox.
> > Is their another / better way to do this or a way to get evolution to
> > keep this from changing?
> hmmm, somehow it's not getting saved in gconf I guess? make sure you
> have write permissions to the entire ~/.gconf directory and each of the
> files. if those are all writable, then I have no idea what the problem
> is... (i.e. gconf vs evo bug)

> Jeff
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