"Evolution would like me to set up its configuration,
because it hasn't been set up yet."
I may be reading your question wrong, but it sounds like you want to set up
Evolution so you can use it with Gmail. That is the combination I use and
it works very well.
After you open Evolution, first click on Edit on the toolbar, then
Preferences and an Evolution Preferences box should open to Mail Accounts,
if not, click on Mail Accounts. Click on Add and follow the prompts.
The tricks to getting Gmail to work are:
1) When it asks for Server Type use pop.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com
2) When it asks for Username (under both pop and smtp) it wants your full
gmail address, e.g., [email protected].
3) Where it asks for Security (both pop and smtp) choose SSL.
Then follow the rest of the prompts.
Phil
PS One book I recently got and like is Ubuntu Kung Fu. I use Debian not
Ubuntu and KDE not Gnome, but it is adaptable, and I learn a little extra
because of that. It is pretty expensive ($30 something)and probably geared
to new to intermediate users, but it has helped me with a lot of problems
I've never gotten good answers to by googling.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Louden" <[email protected]>
To: "Friendly list for people new to Linux" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: Evolution and Gmail
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Brad Beyenhof <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Carl Lowenstein
<[email protected]> wrote:
The web site, seems to hand the message off to
Evolution, and Evolution would like me to set up its configuration,
because it hasn't been set up yet. Offhand, I don't know how to do
that. I am not sure this question makes any sense, please enlighten
me.
This is because Evolution has been set as the default mailto: handler
in GNOME. You can go to Preferences > More Preferences > Preferred
Applications and change it. Gmail isn't an option by default, but
there are a few scripts people have written to use Gmail for the
"Custom" option. Just Google for "gnome gmail default" to see some
options.
I have used the script method. Its not bad and it takes affect across
most apps you would run in Gnome. Which is nice benefit. If you are
looking for that, do the script. However if you really only want it
for your browser I would recommend installing the Google toolbar
(presuming you run Firefox). The toolbar is smart enough to catch mail
links and open the gmail compose window. As well you can strip it
down to minimal features using the Options so that it is not an
annoying presence on the browser.
-Chris
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