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

[Mark Foley <mfoley novatec-inc com>]

Yes, I quite understand about the whole version/package delay thing. I've also
used Slackware for years which is even more dramatic in this respect. However, I
though I was using the "latest" stable version.

The http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop site shows 14.04.03 LTS and 15.10
versions downloadable.  Possibly I'm confused.  I thought 14.04.03 was the
latest stable and 15.10 beta-ish, techies invited to test.  Am I mistaken? What
exactly is the difference between "The latest version of ...  Ubuntu (15.10)"
and "Long Term Support" version (14.04.03).  Maybe I got off on the wrong foot
to begin with. 

--Mark

-----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Need config help on Evolution email client
> From: Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>
> To: Mark Foley <mfoley novatec-inc com>
> Cc: evolution-list gnome org
> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 13:41:02 -0500
>
> On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 13:26 -0500, Mark Foley wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> Ubuntu is no different than any other distribution: Red Hat, Fedora,
> SuSE, etc.  If you use a distribution release which is going on 2 years
> old, then the software versions in that release will be old and not
> supported upstream.  Release-based distributions don't put newer
> versions of software in already-published releases.
>
> This is quadruply-true of Evolution which is NOT a stand-alone
> application like Firefox etc.: it's an integrated component of the GNOME
> desktop.  If you want a newer version of Evolution you'll have to
> upgrade to a newer version of the entire GNOME desktop.
>
> If you want a newer version of Evolution, then simply upgrade your
> version of Ubuntu.  If you switch to the current Ubuntu 15.10 release (I
> personally prefer the Ubuntu GNOME version, not native Ubuntu, but
> whatever) then you'll get Evolution 3.16.5 which is not the latest but
> is much closer.
>
>
> [1] There are exceptions, usu