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

[Mark Foley <mfoley novatec-inc com>]

Pete - thanks for your reply.  See my comments interleaved below.

--Mark

-----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>
> To: evolution-list gnome org
> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:49:12 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Need config help on Evolution email client
>
> 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.

So, your recommendation? Should I get the latest stable release? I assume that
would be 3.18.2 from https://download.gnome.org/sources/evolution/3.18/. Or do
you think that wouldn't work on Ubuntu. Any idea why the Ubuntu folks have not
kept this updated?

In fact, I don't think I've used Evolution enough to have found actual bugs.

> > 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.

In fact, I now have this working. Not sure what the problem was. Maybe an
expired security certificate. I saw a warning on that when trying to connect
using Thunderbird and when I fixed the cert, Evolution started working. 


> > 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?

I shouldn't have said "on the POP account". Ignore that. What I expect to happen
when I click on 'Publish' is to see a dialog, like Outlook, with options to
publish to a WebDAV server and asking for the name of the server, date range to
publish, etc. Instead, nothing at all happens.

After reading your comment, I suppose I do need to configure this first. In
Preferences > Calendar and Tasks > Locations > Add, I see where to do this. I'll
go through the instruction in
https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/calendar-publishing.html.en and
post back if I have issues.

> > 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.

OK, yes, a bit confusing. I'm going to reply to this with a new thread.

> P.
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