Re: [Evolution] Evolution newbie questions

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> > > I've just finished an install of Gnome on Mandriva 2009. First time I've
> > > used Gnome and Evolution so pardon some probably simple questions.
> > >
> > >
> > > 1. I use a script for my signature. In all other MTA's I've used there
> > > is a -- before the signature, I don't see that here in Evolution.
> > > Where/how is it added? BTW, I added the -- manually on the below sig.
> > >
> > > --
> > > KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C Live - The Rolling Stones - I can't get no
> > > satisfaction (Absolute Classic Rock, live from London, UK Hi BR MP3)
> >
> > The character sequence should be '-- '  i.e. two dashes and a space -
> > that's the standard sig separator that MUAs recognise (and hence why
> > your sig wasn't recognised as such by the mailling list software).
> >
> > You need to include the sig separator as part of your signature, Evo
> > doesn't add it for you.  The sig script you use needs to output in HTML
> > so that the editor can format it correctly, so one of the shell scripts
> > I use starts:
> >
> >         echo "-- <br>"
> >         echo "Pete&nbsp;Biggs<br>"
> Doesn't make any sense why should I put HTML tags in a linux script?

Err, because that's how it works.  And you aren't putting HTML tags into
the script - you are using a script to output HTML tags to the Evolution
editor.

> echo "KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C"
> if [ -p /tmp/xmms-info ] ; then echo "Live - $( grep Title: /tmp/xmms-info | 
> awk -F': ' '{print $2}' )"
>
> fi

And if you notice your sig in Evo doesn't have a line break between the
KeyID and "Live" whereas your kmail one does.  That's because you didn't
put a <br> after the KeyID.  To fix it, the first line just has to read:

   echo "-- <br>KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C<br>"


> Kmail automatically adds the -- 

And Evo doesn't.  There are reasons for it.

>  Another question is why doesn't Evolution show 
> a new message count as they come in? I'm using an IMAP account on my local box 
> along with fetchmail and procmail. In Kmail when a new post comes into one of 
> the folders the message count shown changes but not in Evolution.

Have you told it to look for new messages in all folders?

P.