Email clients

[Robert Blair]

On Mon, 2023-12-04 at 09:44 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-12-03 at 23:59 -0600, Bob wrote:
> > I tried it again from your image but it did not work.  I am
> > thinking I 
> > do not have the latest version of Evolution which on my system is 
> > 3.50.0-1.  There is a difference in your image and what I see on my
> > screen.  The "Aliases" line in the image has "+ ADD" and on my
> > system it 
> > is only "Add".  When I enter the address I want in "Aliases" field
> > the 
> > only thing I can see to do is click "OK" but when I go back to the 
> > "Account Edit" screen there is nothing there.
> > 
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> if I try to add an alias by typing foo at bar.buntuland and finishing by
> clicking OK it doesn't work. After typing foo at bar.buntuland I need to
> push the Return or Enter key before I click OK. My version of

Thanks Ralf.  That is something I would never have thought of doing. 
Just added my first Alias and it did work.  So now I can post messages
to this list from Evolution, this being my first try.


> Evolution
> on Arch Linux is 3.50.2. Without doubts I added my alias way before
> the
> release of 3.50.0. That my user interface does look different depends
> on
> the used theme and a few special settings related to the look.
> 
> I suspect that you only need to push Enter and it will work for you,
> too.
> 
> If not, consider to send a request to the Evolution user mailing
> list.
> 
> Evolution might be the only app that belongs to the GNOMRE project,
> that
> still has got a _real_ mailing list. It's
> https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-users .
> 
> When GNOME shut down all mailing lists and migrated to the
> https://discourse.gnome.org/ gamification crap, that despite all
> claims
> does not feature a _real_ mailing list, the Evolution developers and
> users migrated the official Evolution mailing list to osuosl.org.
> 
> It doesn't make sense for mailing client users to struggle with a new
> email-hostile world. The reason for using an email client is to stay
> with reasonable communication.
> 
> The mc mailing list, that was also hosted by gnome.org, migrated
> there,
> too, osuosl.org just isn't part of the domain's name they are using
> and
> of course, MC never was a GNOME project at all.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 

Robert Blair