On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 08:28 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 09:09 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 15:41 -0700, Carl Spitzer wrote:
I have read the reviews and the way it works is junk I can not even find the mail folders anywhere. How do I upgrade to an earlier and IMO better version of Evolution which works as I want? You have a working evolution on 12.1? Mine stopped working a month or so ago. I have been using Thunderbird while waiting for evolution to revive. I would like evolution again. The sources for older better versions do exist online. In Ubuntu 10.4 Evolution 2.28 works and still uses mbox format. Now its something called XDG and everything seems scattered to the winds. Just wish it could be a reader for MS Mail. Our company uses the latest MS protocol (can never remember what it is called), and have disabled
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 09:39 -0700, Carl Spitzer wrote: pop and the owa interface. I have to use my browser to access the company mail system. Unless I go totally mad and use Windows... Only my Mac at home has this sorted. Maybe the reorganization is in preparation for adding more functionality?
Massive, yes. The improvements are coming fast and furious in the very latest builds. Check out evolution-list@ and evolution-hackers@ lists; there is some really exciting stuff. Account management, HTML messages, improved composer, just lots of great stuff coming down. Just discovered that I already have powerful new template support <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641845> - still have to try that out. Sorry, I don't know anything about exchange connectivity. Other than what I read - which is that it is a bit messy with three different backends. There has been chatter on evolution-hackers@ about this in the last few days. <https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list> <https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/> <https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers> <https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-hackers/> Specifically some stuff on evolution-exchange <https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-hackers/2012-June/msg00000.html>