Hi, in my long time experiences with Evolution the composer sometimes suffers from a few negligible hickups, when installing it from official Arch Linux repos, but nothing that serious as you experience. In my experiences Evolution from official Ubuntu repositories sometimes worked and sometimes it was completely unusable, depending on the Ubuntu release.
I can't comment on the flatpak, however, sandboxed MUAs are known to cause issues. At least I read about Evolution and Claws not working properly when installed as a Flatpack or Snap on several Linux mailing lists. You could try an external editor, https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-composer-external-editor.html.en . I don't know if it works when Evolution is sandboxed by a flatpak or snap. Even if it should work, an external editor IMO is less comfortable, but in your case it might not suffer from the issue you described, IOW it might be worth testing it. You probably won't use https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic-updates/evolution since 3.28.5 is that old, but maybe it works without issues. Ubuntu already provides the next LTS, with the quite new version 3.36.3, https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal-updates/evolution . Maybe it's worth to enforce a release upgrade, https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-upgrade-from-ubuntu-18-04-lts-to-20-04-lts-today . The problem of Evolution running on Ubuntu from official Ubuntu repositories seems to be, that it is from universe, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories#Universe , it anyway might be a better choice than using a flatpak. Did you try a flatpak of the "unstable development version", https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Flatpak ? Maybe it's more stable than the one you are using? Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list