[Evolution] Changing Evolution colours & contact list

[James Freer via evolution-list]

Hi folks

I'd be grateful if someone could advise where I can change the colour of email
addresses. In a msg I find the default hi-viz green/yellow a bit sharp and
would prefer to change it to blue or black.

I read a post that one can access gmail addresses for contacts. I would be
grateful if someone could explain how to do that.

I am not so knowledgeable on changing configurations in linux I'm a truck
driver not that clued up on IT things.

many thanks

James

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Re: [Evolution] New user - please clarify Expunge

[James Freer via evolution-list]

On Sat, 2019-07-20 at 18:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 09:50:04 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > this list is for _Evolution_, not Ubuntu
> 
> The original request is not regarding Ubuntu, it's a valid Evolution
> related request

Thank you Sir for your kind words - despite other replies I thought it was a
perfectly reasonable request as certain mail clients are designed to behave in
different ways.

>  "I want to automatically delete messages over 24 months. Went into
>  Folder > Properties > AutoArchive (selecting delete old messages over
>  24 months). That marks them for deletion but when I did a folder
>  Expunge it did not seem to clear them. So I am wondering how that is
>  to work. [I put all messages into the All Mail folder (rather than
>  inbox)]. Maybe there is a better method."

Well I have found a solution but also seem to have found a bug (maybe) that
other folk don't know about posting and reporting such things is the whole
point of a mailing list.

Initially just to tidy up one minor issue so it's clear to those who have never
used gmail.
"[I put all messages into the All Mail folder (rather than inbox)]."
This was a bit confusing for those who don't know gmail. As someone said gmail
uses labels and to make that clearer still there is one box for mail (All Mail)
and other boxes receive mail that is labelled. e.g. a Sent email will be in the
Sent box as a label has been applied but it will also be in the All Mail box
(along with Spam, Rubbish/Bin, Starred etc which also have their own
associated labels). They also have a label Inbox so all mail shows up there - 
unless in gmail settings you enter the option to immediately Archive mail which
seems the best thing to do (go into settings and check box "if message does not
contain" a certain word (any junk word) e.g. 'qhwtbdgefuinguthebtydkcng'
Archive it. That works fine to save manually archiving which is a pain
don't know why they bothered with the Inbox but there we are. All worked fine
for the last 20 years that I've had gmail (tried aol and yahoo once but still
think gmail is the best provider) until the last 6 months when they
revamped the UI. The html version works irregularly with a browser (I use 
Firefox) as it often only shows one screen of messages.

In evolution like all mail clients I looked up how to delete older unwanted
mail. For each email address folder went to View > clic Show deleted messages.
I went to Folder > Properties > AutoArchive (select over 24 months), clic
delete old messages. Looking in All Mail one sees the deleted email and
proceeds to Folder > Expunge... and the message at the bottom saying Expunging
folder etc... seems to work ok. BUT when one scrolls through mail, deleted mail
appears at the top or bottom I noticed (this does seem a bit odd). So either I
had such a lot of mail it couldn't cope and perhaps can only delete so many
records at a time... but I tried it several times and I still had deleted mail.
I manually selected all the deleted mail in folder All mail and dumped them in
the Rubbish folder.

With the thought that 'Delete old messages' was not the right selection I tried
clic 'move old messages to' select from window folder Rubbish BUT one cannot
clic OK to close the window.

Then tried as above but selecting the Spam folder and clic OK to close the
window. That works fine as gmail deletes Spam every 30 days automatically
(think that is the same with most providers).

I thought my post was reasonable and no one has commented on the method. I've
found a solution which may be the best way of doing things but the Expunge
should work on a folder.

james



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Re: [Evolution] New user - please clarify Expunge

[James Freer via evolution-list]

On Fri, 2019-07-19 at 13:24 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:

> this is a list for Evolution development.

Well according to the wiki this is the list for users. 'evolution-hackers' is
the list for developers - I thought I was posting in the right place.

james

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Re: [Evolution] New user - please clarify Expunge

[James Freer via evolution-list]

Hi thanks for the reply

On Fri, 2019-07-19 at 17:44 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> which Evolution version is this about?
> Which mail account type is this about? (IMAP, POP, ...)

The latest presumably as it came straight from the repos
3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

IMAP

> On Fri, 2019-07-19 at 16:08 +0100, James Freer wrote:
> > I was pleased evolution installed without hitch but I am a bit unsure
> > on the
> > Expunge. I want to automatically delete messages over 24 months. Went
> > into
> > Folder > Properties > AutoArchive (selecting delete old messages over
> > 24
> > months). That marks them for deletion but when I did a folder Expunge
> > it did
> > not seem to clear them. So I am wondering how that is to work. [I put
> > all
> > messages into the All Mail folder (rather than inbox)]. Maybe there
> > is a better
> > method.
> 
> What is an "All Mail folder"? Is that something you created and you
> move Inbox messages there via a filter rule?

I assume you aren't familiar with Gmail. All mail goes into the 'All Mail'
folder... even Sent mail (although a copy is put in the Sent folder). The
google way of doing things. There is an Inbox and one can archive to All Mail
but as you suggest I put in a filter (on gmail UI settings) to bypass it...
just avoids having to manually archive mail.

james

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[Evolution] New user - please clarify Expunge

[James Freer via evolution-list]

[xubuntu user since 2007]

Hi

After a few years of not using an email client I have decided to try Evolution.
I receive quite a lot of mail as I belong to many groups. I did use Alpine to
purge emails after a couple of years but gmail seems to change its UI and I
have decided to look for an alternative. The choice is really between Geary,
Thunderbird and Evolution... if one wants to read html (not that I want to but
so many folk use it that a plain text only email client like Sylpheed is not
for me).

I was pleased evolution installed without hitch but I am a bit unsure on the
Expunge. I want to automatically delete messages over 24 months. Went into
Folder > Properties > AutoArchive (selecting delete old messages over 24
months). That marks them for deletion but when I did a folder Expunge it did
not seem to clear them. So I am wondering how that is to work. [I put all
messages into the All Mail folder (rather than inbox)]. Maybe there is a better
method.

Only a minor thing but I'd be grateful if someone could put me right.

thanks
james

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Re: [Evolution] Newbie-questions

[James Freer]

On 24 October 2016 at 20:22, Ralf Mardorf  wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 10:17 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
>> If Evolution hasn't yet, just sit down and document all of the file
>> locations and DConf / GSettings keys.
>
> As already pointed out, push F1 and Ctrl+F, then search for "back" and
> you'll get
>
> "Back up and restore"
>
> It mentions that you anyway need to backup bogofilter and spamassasin
> directories separately, which make sense, since they are shared by
> several apps. I for example use bogofilter with Claws and Evolution.
>
> On the bottom there is a link to
>
> "Data storage locations
> This is only interesting for advanced users who want to debug problems.
> Evolution 3.6 and later stores its data according to the XDG Base
> Directory Specification. By default this means:
> The user's data files
> $HOME/.local/share/evolution
> Various configuration and state files
> $HOME/.config/evolution
> Account settings
> $HOME/.config/evolution/sources
> Disposable data caches
> $HOME/.cache/evolution
> Configuration settings in GSettings
> $HOME/.config/dconf"
>
> A backup of .cache isn't needed.
>
> I'm neither a fan of dconf, nor do I use gesettings, but it has got a
> help option and a man page, if you really want to 'get' the values.
>
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ gsettings list-schemas | grep evolution
> org.gnome.evolution.shell
> org.gnome.evolution.plugin.face-picture
> [snip]
> org.gnome.evolution.mail
> [snip]
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ gsettings list-keys org.gnome.evolution.mail
> composer-magic-smileys
> composer-use-outbox
> [snip]
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ gsettings get org.gnome.evolution.mail
> composer-magic-smileys
> false
>
> My backup strategy is to backup /home completely, using cp -pr or cp -a,
> resp. tar or tar -xattrs. I don't know if attributes are really
> important, restoring from backups that didn't care for attributes never
> caused an issue for me. Since I'm using a rolling release I don't have
> to mess about distro releases. You could use rsync or what ever else,
> but IMO it makes sense to copy the complete home directory.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf

Thanks folks - I'll use the provided backup feature. The way Evolution
stores data is fine but i was unsure. It's similar to TB. Sylpheed
makes life easy as it stores mailboxes for each email address in a
named directory but Sypheed doesn't cope with reading html so well
which is why I have changed to Evolution.

One thing I have noticed is that whilst in evolution if I click on a
link it invokes the Firefox browser rather than Chromium (set as
default). There's a setting somewhere that i have missed.

james
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Re: [Evolution] Gmail integration w. Evolution

[James Freer]

On 27 October 2016 at 18:48, Bart Vliegen  wrote:
> Thanks for the reply poc. You als have [Gmail] as a subfolder of your
> account.
>
> Basically what I want is for my Gmail-account to be the single account /
> folder in Evolution. So my Gmail inbox is also my Evolution inbox. This can
> easily be done in Thunderbird, I am just looking for a way to make this work
> in Evolution.
>
> I checked folder subscriptions, they won't accomplish what I want.
>
> Regards,
> Bart

I have set my Gmail accounts up to show All mail, Sent, Spam, Starred
- just four which is the way I like it. The various labels
irritate me so in Settings I have hidden them leaving just the four I
want. I think you cannot have your Inbox as 'mainmail box' as inbox is
a label like 'sent' is. This is where Gmail is different to other
providers - for better or worse. I have used yahoo and used the Inbox
as my 'all mailbox' which is what i think you are trying to do in
Gmail.

In Gmail 'All Mail' is your main mailbox. As for the Inbox i set a
filter 'if the email does not contain the words
"thtrftefdersewdfcgfv4356975" (some gibberish) - Archive. So all
received mail goes into the All mail box (archived).

james
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[Evolution] Newbie-questions

[James Freer]

Hi folks

using linux xubuntu 16.04

Just started using Evolution. I'd be grateful if someone could just clarify a 
few points for me.


- can I set the mailbox to ascending order rather than descending

- using imap. Which directory is mail and settings stored in on the PC as I 
would prefer to do manual backups. Not sure what others do but when one 
installs the next xubuntu update I want to be able to copy the directory to 
remote hard drive and copy it back once new install is set up.


thanks
james

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