Evolution

R S Gill rsgill at purdue.edu
Mon Aug 8 16:53:26 UTC 2005


Hello Peter,

Thank you for answering some of my questions. I will give Evolution 
another try with the recommendations you made.

I'll post back here with updates.

Gill

Peter Lieverdink wrote:

>R S Gill wrote:
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>
>>Hi again Marc,
>>
>>Well thanks for your help.
>>
>>It's just a shame that Evolution isn't more flexible when it comes to
>>IMAP mail.
>>    
>>
>
>Howso? Mine does _everything_ it would also do with local mail.
>
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>>Gill
>>
>>Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
>>
>>    
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>>>I just read the help section and it says it only puts them in the junk
>>>folder.  Thats spam I'm talking about.
>>>      
>>>
>
>Do you or the ubiversity use spamassassin at all? I just set up a filter
>to move any spam (ie: X-Spam-Status header) to a mailbox of my own choosing.
>Alternatively, Tools -> Filters -> Add -> IF "Junk Test" "Message is
>Junk" THEN -> choose action...
>
>  
>
>>>Regarding the mail folder yeah I agree with you I have to manually
>>>transfer it to my sent folder since I used to use webmail only.
>>>      
>>>
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>Edit -> Preferences -> Accounts -> Edit -> Defaults -> Select a folder
>for Sent mail.
>
>  
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>>>You can just set it so it empties trash on exit however I'm assuming
>>>because you keep the mail you don't wanna do that straight away.
>>>      
>>>
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>You can make Evolution move the message to Trash (or anywhere else) and
>remove it from the current folder, as opposed to just marking it as
>deleted. When you're deleting or moving hundreds of mails
>simultaneously, it might mark them as deleted first, then expunge them
>automatically. I can't actually find the pref to set this, but mine
>certainly behaves that way.
>
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>>>HTH
>>>Marc
>>>      
>>>
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>- Peter.
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