Re: [Evolution] 3 questions

["Øystein Gisnås" <oystein gisnas net>]

2007/6/4, Dinbandhu <dinbandhu sprynet com>:
> I have three questions regarding the evolution application:
>
> 1. How do I create a mailing list?
>
> Let's say I have 20 e-mail addresses which I mail to regularly. And I
> want to collect them all together under the name "ink-suppliers". So
> every time I want to communicate with my ink suppliers, all I have to do
> is click on "ink-suppliers", and the letter I am writing will be
> addressed to all 20 ink-suppliers.

Add a Contact List called "Ink Suppliers" with the 20 addresses.

> 2. Why is all my incoming mail duplicated in the trash?
>
> If I go to my trash bin in evolution, all the letters I have received
> since I started using evolution three weeks ago, are there in the trash.
> They are also located where I put them, in various folders. But there is
> an identical copy in the trash (which I did not put there). So I am
> afraid to empty the trash, for fear all my incoming mail I've received,
> will be deleted.
>
>
> 3. Why have all the icons changed to "x"?
>
> In evolution, all the various options on the toolbar i.e.
> "send/receive", "reply to all", "forward", "delete", "junk", have a an
> icon above them. One day all these icons came to appear as a piece of
> paper with a red x in the middle. I think it may have happened when the
> computer froze one day and I had to power the computer down with
> evolution still open. Ever since then, it has been like this. And not
> only those icons, also the "inbox", "outbox", "sent", as well as the
> "mail", "contacts", "calendars", "memos", and "tasks".
>
> Any ideas as to how to correct this? Will I have to re-install the
> program? If so, how do I do that without losing all my data?

Did you compile evolution yourself, or do you use a distro? Which
distro? Which version?

Cheers,
Øystein