Mark Neill wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Levente Farkas wrote: > > - I'm not able to import my netscape addressbook! without this feature > > no one with switch to evo from netscape. I try to export to ldif my > > addressbook, but I've got a few "Importer not ready. Wait 5 seconds." > > or sometime after the first try seems to import it but the contact > > list is empty, sometimes the importer die (crash). if it helps you > > I can send my ldif file. > > - why put a "--" before my signature? the signature in my signature file > > is my full signature and I don't would like to add an extra line with > > 2 dash! > > - I use imap server to keep my mails. why don't use the imap servers > > for draft and sent mails. ok I can set it in the settings but it'd > > be more natural defaults. > > - another thing at the summary just the local mail folders can be > > inserted, but all of my mails are on our imap server so what I'd like > > Switching from one mail client to another, regardless of which, is a pain > in the...butt. You're not getting it any herder going from NS to Evo than > you would, say, from NS to Outlook, or To Eudora, or Mutt.
there are importers:-) and at least the most popular mailers can be supported. > 1) 0.99-1.snap is not the newest version. Reports are that the new > versions support Netscape address importing. Look for a 0.99-2 version. I use red-carpet on redhat 7.2 Evolution Snapshot channel (Nightly snapshots of the Ximian Evolution groupware suite) and there is no newer package! > 2) There is a "--\n" before your signature, because technically, that's > how signatures are supposed to be formatted. Mail RFC's and > recommendation documents use this separator to break the signature from > the body of a message when you do things like reply-wth-quote. ok. I didn't know about:-( > 3) Because, IMO, this is silly. You can't assume everyone will be online > 100% of the time they are using their mail client. Many people on dialups > do offline reading. Setting the Sent and Draft folders to be, by default, > online will break such user's setups. Setting to local by default does > not break the setup of users who are 100% connected. Less impact with > these choices, and as you point out, you can change it, so this isn't a > real problem. understand your point. > 4) This is a limitation of IMAP. In order to do this, Evo would have to > constantly refresh the mailbox status from the server. See the answer to > #3 as to why assuming 100% connectivity is bad. not realy in this case those who set it have to be 100% online, those who not online don't would like to put their folders to the summary. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
