[Techtalk] Question re Kmail & Evolution

[Tabatha Persad]

Thanks, Poppy, I'll keep that in mind!

JennyW also suggested I try IMAP as well, so now I have two sound 
alternatives to get Evolution working.

There are really only two things that bother me about Kmail.  One is that I 
can't get rid of the preview pane, seem to be stuck with it.  Second is that 
as soon as the mail comes in , when I single click on the message it 
automatically marks it as read. 

I prefer opening my mail by double clicking and having no preview, and having 
the message marked as read after I actually opened it, but there are no 
config options for this.

So when I'm feeling ambitious, I'll give one of these two ideas a try!

Thanks for your help, both of you!

Tabatha


On Friday 12 April 2002 22:12, Poppy wrote:
> Sending off-list, just 'cuz.
>
> Try exporting from Outlook Express into Netscape (or rather, importing
> into Netscape [or Mozilla])... then from there into Evolution. THat's
> how I did mine :)
>
> Evolution 0.13... you might want to look into whether there's a more
> recent version, I remember that one to be a little bit buggy. I
> installed 1.3, and it seems much more stable.
>
> --Poppy
>
> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 12:26, Tabatha Persad wrote:
> > Hey folks...
> >
> > I'm having a heck of a time here.  I decided I don't want to use Outlook
> > Express anymore, and I am going to just use the web to access my hotmail,
> > which I am slowly but surely re-directing (YAY, piece o'crap).
> >
> > First I tried to import messages from Outlook Express 5 to Evolution
> > 0.13. Evolution wouldn't take them, they were the wrong format (would
> > only take Express 4), and unfortunately an automatic didn't work either.
> >
> > Then I thought maybe Evolution would import them if they were Outlook
> > instead of Outlook Express, so I exported from Outlook Express to
> > Outlook, but when I tried to do an import from Evolution it wouldn't
> > accept them that way either.
> >
> > So getting frustrated, I decided to see what would happen with Kmail. 
> > They imported the Outlook Express 5 folders fine, except I had to rename
> > them.  I was also able to get my address book into Kmail from Outlook
> > Express. Different, but it works.
> >
> > The question:  Will Evolution import Kmail?  I couldn't find word one in
> > the import section of Evolution, and in fact, for the version I have
> > (which is probably as out of date as the version), they don't talk about
> > import/export functions.  I saw a Kmail KAB import utility, but I'm not
> > even sure Kmail can export, I've only seen the import command, even
> > within Kmail itself.
> >
> > I don't want to upgrade Evolution, because the last time I did that it
> > took over my GDM, and made my life miserable!
> >
> > Any suggestions would be great!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
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Tabatha Persad
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