Re: [orca-list] OT setting up Evolution Mail

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
On archlinux I am using the thunderbird-beta package from AUR which has 
the alpha releases of thunderbird 3.3 at the moment.

If you want to use the latest from mozilla look at 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central/, 
which seems to be the latest 3.3 builds I can find.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Hey Michael,
>
> I tried looking for the 3.3 builds of Thunderbird on the Mozilla FTP
> site but could never find it.  Do you know the general directory
> locations? nightly/latest/trunk or whatever, only points to 3.1.7 the
> last time I looked last week or so.
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 01:48:44PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > I think in evolution the option for POP as server type is the same
> > as POP3 in other clients. One would have thought that if evolution
> > was unable to get the mail for some reason it would show a
> > warning/error message. Are there any specific settings you are
> > unsure of which we could try and explain?
> >
> > An alternative to using evolution for email would be thunderbird. I
> > would say in general I prefer the interface of thunderbird, setting
> > up email accounts can be easy (it has a feature where it can attempt
> > to find out the settings automatically for you, eg. with my AIM
> > email account I just entered my email address and password and
> > thunderbird found the server settings for me). However from time to
> > time Mozilla products do seem to break something with accessibility,
> > there's times when you feel what might they break next. As an
> > example if you use a version of thunderbird from the 3.1 branch
> > there is a problem with focus when you open a message in a new
> > window rather than in a new tab, upgrading to thunderbird 3.3
> > development builds will solve that but 3.3 has an issue of speaking
> > the wrong character when using backspace. Despite the warts of
> > thunderbird I do still use it rather than evolution. I think the
> > only time I would use evolution instead of thunderbird is if I
> > needed to use an exchange server for email, I don't know of any
> > plugin or support for it in thunderbird.
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> > On -10/01/37 20:59, Glenn wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I got the Voxin to work with the latest package.
> > > Now that I can tolerate the voice, I thought I'd set Evolution Mail.
> > > I have set up Outlook express a hundred times, and Outlook a number of
> > > times, and even Eudora a number of times a long time ago.
> > > But I can't seem to get Evolution to set up for Pop3.
> > > In the list of server types, there is POP, but not POP3, but I don't know if
> > > this makes any difference.
> > > I'm connected to the Internet, and I press F9 to check messages, and it goes
> > > out, and seems to not get anything.
> > > I know that there is stuff there, because I looked at on the web-mail.
> > > Some of the settings aren't exactly like Outlook Express, so when there is
> > > no choice exactly like in OE, I feel that there might be a problem.Anyone
> > > else had trouble here?
> > > And if so, what might I look for?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Glenn
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