Re: [Evolution] Need config help on Evolution email client

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 01:24 -0500, Mark Foley wrote:
> I've just installed Evolution 3.10.4 on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS with Cinnamon
> desktop. So far I like it, but I'm having some problems.

As others have said, it appears that 3.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 is broken in
various ways (it's to do with the Ubuntu packaging - 3.10 was fine on
other systems).  3.10 is also very old now and unsupported.

> 1. I've configured 2 accounts: one for POP, one for IMAP -- different servers
> (personal, work). The POP accounts works just fine. The IMAP account works for
> sending (which means the SMTP works), but I can't get my mail. I've configured
> iPhone, Android, Outlook, roundCube to connect to the IMAP server and they all
> work. I believe I'm using the same settings for Evolution, but nothing. When I
> monitor the dovecot log on the IMAP server it shows nothing at all when I do
> send/receive on Evolution. Yet I can `telnet popserver.com 143 and it connects
> and shows in the dovecot log. It's as if Evolution isn't even trying the IMAP
> connection. I've tried ports 143 and 993, with and without TLS. Nada. Any idea
> what's going on?

Run Evolution from the command line to see if any errors are shown.  If
there is nothing obvious, run it with IMAP debugging enabled - see

 https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Debugging

and that will tell you what is happening.


> 2. On the POP account, I have a calendar. I've clicked Actions > Publish
> Calendar, but nothing at all happens. Why?

What do you mean that you "have a calendar" on the POP account?  And
what did you expect to happen when you publish the calendar?  Have you
setup the location to publish to?

> 3. I've "labeled" one of the messages as 'Important' (right-click message >
> Label > Important). This is indicated on the 'Label' drop-down as a red square.
> However, the message does not show this anywhere. I can select 'Show >
> Important' and it does filter by that, but I'd like to see the red square
> somewhere in my message list view. Doable? 
Messages marked as "Important" will be coloured red in the message list
and have a flag/indicator in the third column (the actual icon used
depends on your window manager and theme).  There is no indication in
the message view of the flag status.

But you should also be aware that there is a difference between the
"Important" flag (Right click > Mark as Important) and the Evolution
internal label "Important" (Right click > Label > Important).  The
labels only apply to the messages on a specific machine - i.e. they are
held in a local database; the flag, which is an IMAP property, will be
present on whatever client is using the IMAP store.

Yes, I know it's confusing, it's historical.  The rationale is that the
labels can be modified to say anything - it just so happens one of them
says "Important" by default; the Flag is a marker that by convention
means "this message is important" on mail clients.

P.