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From: Chris on 16 Oct 2009 10:29 To cut a long story short I need to move away from Thunderbird at work and so far have found evolution to be best alternative. Except for a couple of niggles: - I'd like to be able to store replies in the same folder as the original - I can't set the default view to have the 'subject' column first (it reverts to 'From' first on restarts) Does anyone have any suggestions for the above, please? BTW this is evolution 2.12.3 on Centos 5.2. Installing a newer one from source has a version dependency I can't fix, so am stuck with it.
From: Whiskers on 16 Oct 2009 16:22 On 2009-10-16, Chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > To cut a long story short I need to move away from Thunderbird at work and > so far have found evolution to be best alternative. Except for a couple of > niggles: > > - I'd like to be able to store replies in the same folder as the original > - I can't set the default view to have the 'subject' column first (it > reverts to 'From' first on restarts) > > Does anyone have any suggestions for the above, please? > > BTW this is evolution 2.12.3 on Centos 5.2. Installing a newer one from > source has a version dependency I can't fix, so am stuck with it. I don't know about Evolution, but Claws Mail can do both those things. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~
From: Martin Gregorie on 17 Oct 2009 09:35 On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:29:05 +0100, Chris wrote: > To cut a long story short I need to move away from Thunderbird at work > and so far have found evolution to be best alternative. Except for a > couple of niggles: > > - I'd like to be able to store replies in the same folder as the > original > - I can't set the default view to have the 'subject' column first (it > reverts to 'From' first on restarts) > > Does anyone have any suggestions for the above, please? > > BTW this is evolution 2.12.3 on Centos 5.2. Installing a newer one from > source has a version dependency I can't fix, so am stuck with it. > I'm using Evolution 2.24.5, the current version with fully updated Fedora 10. - received and sent messages can be stored in the same folder. Just drag'n drop from the Inbox and Sent folders to the folder of your choice. - Dragging the Subject heading along the column headings line changes the order for a mail folder. I think this has to be done for each folder along with setting the sort order. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
From: Chris on 19 Oct 2009 05:01 Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:29:05 +0100, Chris wrote: > >> To cut a long story short I need to move away from Thunderbird at work >> and so far have found evolution to be best alternative. Except for a >> couple of niggles: >> >> - I'd like to be able to store replies in the same folder as the >> original >> - I can't set the default view to have the 'subject' column first (it >> reverts to 'From' first on restarts) >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions for the above, please? >> >> BTW this is evolution 2.12.3 on Centos 5.2. Installing a newer one from >> source has a version dependency I can't fix, so am stuck with it. >> > I'm using Evolution 2.24.5, the current version with fully updated Fedora > 10. > > - received and sent messages can be stored in the same folder. > Just drag'n drop from the Inbox and Sent folders to the folder of your > choice. Sorry, I missed the most important word: 'automatically'. Thunderbird has an extension which allows you to specify where to store the replies automatically. Life's too short for dragging and dropping all my sent mail. > - Dragging the Subject heading along the column headings line changes > the order for a mail folder. I think this has to be done for each > folder along with setting the sort order. Yes. I can do this, but it resets everytime I restart evolution. I want to move the columns and for them to stay where /I/ put them. -- The email address is a spam trap. I rarely use it.
From: Chris on 19 Oct 2009 05:03
Whiskers wrote: > On 2009-10-16, Chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> To cut a long story short I need to move away from Thunderbird at work >> and so far have found evolution to be best alternative. Except for a >> couple of niggles: >> >> - I'd like to be able to store replies in the same folder as the >> original >> - I can't set the default view to have the 'subject' column first (it >> reverts to 'From' first on restarts) >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions for the above, please? >> >> BTW this is evolution 2.12.3 on Centos 5.2. Installing a newer one from >> source has a version dependency I can't fix, so am stuck with it. > > I don't know about Evolution, but Claws Mail can do both those things. I (nor a colleague) can't get Claws to work with our SMTP server. I may investigate it further if evolution has too many annoyances. Cheers. -- The email address is a spam trap. I rarely use it. |