On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 16:58 +1100, Andrew J Fortune wrote: > Sorry but I looked here, and found answers to none of the questions, > except (4) which Evolution cryptically refers to as "Expunge".
Expunge is an IMAP term, it's not specific to Evolution. You need to understand the IMAP model for deleting messages: "delete" marks a message for deletion, but doesn't remove it. "Expunge" removes it. Evolution shows deleted messages in a Trash folder, but Trash is a *virtual* folder, i.e. the messages have not physically moved. If you deselect View->Hide Deleted Messages in some folder you'll see them in their original positions, marked with a line through them. Expunging a folder removes the marked messages in that folder. Emptying Trash is equivalent to expunging all the marked messages in all folders. Before you ask, you can't expunge an individual message. IMAP has no operation for moving messages between folders. It only allows copying. Evo has a "Move" operation, but it works as copy+delete, and of course delete follows the above model. So after "moving" a message you'll still see it in its original location (depending on your View settings), but marked for deletion. I've no idea how to import Outlook messages, but if they're on an IMAP server there's no problem as you can just access them directly. Alternatively, have them dumped as "mbox" files (one file per folder) and import these into Evolution (mbox is the lowest-common-denominator mailbox format under Unix/Linux and all clients support it at least for importing). Changing fonts is probably system-specific. In Linux it's mostly done by the Gnome desktop, not by Evolution itself (but look under Preferences->Mail Preferences->General). I don't know how this is done in Windows. Setting Evo as the default mail client is Windows-specific and has nothing to do with Evolution as such (Evo might have a helper function for it, but it might not). IIRC you right-click on something in the Windows Start menu, but don't quote me :-) I'm not sure what you mean by "saving" messages. You can move messages between folders with drag-and-drop or select messages and do Message->Move (or Copy). I imagine Evo supports the usual Windows method of Ctrl-Click to select multiple messages. Or use filters if you want to automate it. Note that automatic filters only work on Unseen messages (check the FAQ), but you can also apply them manually (Ctrl-Y). poc PS Please don't post to this list in HTML. PPS Please don't top-post as it makes threads harder to read. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list