On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:56 pm, Dave Barton wrote:
I have abandoned my quest to find a Linux equivalent to Outlook and
Have you taken a look at Evolution 1.x? (Not the old early beta that is what unfortunately comes with 7.3 and earlier.)
I downloaded the basic Ximain Desktop for SuSE 7.3 which included Evolution 1.0.1
OK. I noticed in another message from you that you couldn't get it to send out. What was the content of any error messages? Did you get the smtp server right? If Evolution can use /usr/sbin/sendmail and you have a working sendmail setup (not a trivial task) have you tried that?
It can be certainly minimized, why do you want it disabled?
Partly an old Outlook habit, where I can see the message sender + subject and delete anything which looks suspect. OK this may not _currently_ be a problem in Linux e-mail apps, but it's a habit I am not going to change.
It'll never be a problem with KMail unless KMail suddenly starts supporting scripting in the email program the way Outlook supports VBScript as it's automatic virus transmitter. Also, even if you were to do something dumb and click on a suspicious attachment they can't do nearly the damage as they can under Windows unless you do it as root. The latter is the reason why there are few viruses for Linux.
More importantly is the fact that when I click on an unread message (regardless of the reason for selecting it) it instantly changes the highlighting / color to a read message (regardless of the viewer
You can right click on the message, go to select set status, and manually change the status to what you prefer. This is something that bugs me too, but it's not behavior unique to KMail unfortunately. (KMail is unusual in that it allows you to easily reset the status manually though.)
b) Is there any true message archive facility within Kmail?
I'm not sure what you mean. You can save messages to folders, and messages you send out are automatically archived in the sent-mail folder.
I haven't checked if Kmail physically stores the messages in the sent and inbox folders as individual files or in one collective file (eg.
One collective file. This file is standard mbox format as far as I know, you can copy the folder to disk and copy it back with another name and KMail will recognize and use it. (It seemed to do this when I changed over from mutt due to problems with sendmail.)
messages from the folders, but how does Kmail archive and restore those messages that you want to keep (say on a fd or zip) for possible future reference. Archiving is such an incredibly trivial function to
Copy the folder to disk, then while KMail isn't running, copy it back with a non-conflicting new name. Start KMail, and it might recognize the new folder in the Mail directory. (See above.)