Re: [Evolution] Many Q's

[David Planella <david planella gmail com>]

Jim,

I can only answer a couple of your questions:

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 12:03 -0400, Jim wrote:

> Evo doesn't fill in the To: field for newsgroups.  How the heck do I
> send posts to newsgroups?  I can select a message in a newsgroup and
> click reply and it works. However if I have the newsgroup folder
> selected and click New, I get an empty email with no TO:.  I tried
> putting in news:alt.foo and alt.foo in the To: field but the message
> just went to my inbox (I am using Postfix).  So with Evo and
> newsgroups I can reply to posts or if I want a new post I would have
> to hijack a thread which borks everyones threading and gets me yelled
> at : )

You go to Message>Post New Message To Folder... In this way, there is no
To: field but a Post To: field that gets automatically filled with the
name of the newsgroup you are trying to post to. Only that or
right-clicking an existing thread and choosing "Reply To All" as you
described will let you post a new nntp message (or, of course, manually
adding the Post To: field and typing the newsgroup).

However, there is a bug associated with that (at least in Evo 2.4.1),
whereby after successfully posting a message to a newsgroup, your
message is transferred to the Sent folder as usual, but the To: entry in
the message list remains empty. You may want to have a look at it:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330183

> Does Evo support changing key bindings?  For example under View menu I
> can click "Expand all threads".  However, again it is a PITA to have
> to do two clicks to expand/collapse a thread.  Sylpheed-Claws lets me
> highlight a menu item and press a key combo to make a new shortcut
> key.  I tried that in Evo and it didn't work.

I don't think it does, not at least in the GNOME way, whereby you enable
System>Preferences>Menu and Toolbars> "Editable menu accelerators" and
then you type your new key binding while the mouse is selecting the
action in the menu you want the new shortcut for.

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me will give you a better
answer for this one.

Anyway, I hope my comments can help you further.

Cheers.