Having an Evolution and Mail notification Problem?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu May 24 19:18:33 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
>
>>> What I found was slowing the system down in regards to using filters
>> was it took forever to scan the messages and process them. I am not
>> the only person having these issues here. Even one of our IT members
>> has the same issues.
>
> How's the speed if you use browser access to owa?
That depends on the load on the server.
If I don't run filters, even evolution is fast. I can copy (move really
doesn't move) messages to my local mailbox, expunge the server inbox in
~2 minutes on 270 messages.
>
>> I will look at setting up an imap server on my computer once I install
>> FC7.
>
> If your organization doesn't prohibit outside internet access, you might
> want to move all of your internet email (lists, etc.) to an outside
> server. If you can find one that lets you use imap directly, so much
> the better, but gmail is tolerable if you let fetchmail grab mail with
> pop and dump it in your imap server. It actually has the advantage that
> way in that you set up gmail to 'archive' as you download. Then you can
> delete your copy as you read but if you want to go back or search for
> something later you can use their web interface to access the saved copies.
>
No, external mail is getting blocked. Same as the forwarding that many
have used to get out of using Outlook and Exchange.
>> As for hotkeys, I don't really need them.
>
> I like to read in an unthreaded latest-first view but often want to see
> the rest of a conversation so a quick bounce between threaded/unthreaded
> is handy. On the mac, the generic hotkey setup in the OS is enough to
> add it. There's also a plugin for TB for the other versions but I
> haven't gotten around to installing it.
>
I have seen that there is a keyconfig editor available for TB. I have
yet to try it.
>> I won't look at Evolution until I see some changes that make it worth
>> my time. I really hate the way addresses are shown in the compose
>> applet. I prefer the individual line for each address. I also don't
>> like the date display for messages. I find the "Today, Yesterday ..."
>> to be confusing and distracting when I am scanning lists.
>
> I'm not that picky - I just read backwards from newest until I run into
> things I've already seen. The one thing that matters to me is that when
> I hit delete, the selection should move to the next message.
>
Productivity is the key. The main reason I don't like Evolution or
Outlook. To many interruptions.
I prefer threaded messages and I prefer to see the dates as I normally
work by dates. It is one of those preferences. I found a feature in TB
that is great and has solved one of these issues of wanting to scan
messages but not actually read them. There is a setting that marks a
message as read after X seconds. Now I can scan messages to see if it
has the stuff I need to read. If it doesn't, I can either hold onto it
marked as unread or I can delete the thread/message as needed. :)
> > But that is my
>> personal preference. I still like Pine and use it for most of my
>> system admin mail. :)
>
> Pine has to be the most bizarre user interface known to man. Elm/mutt
> are sort-of tolerable but these days a plain text-only message is
> uncommon except on internet lists.
>
I have html, well at least graphics turned off in my TB. At least TB
allows me to load the graphics for those pages that I want/need to see
the graphics with a press of a button. I never could figure out how to
do that in Evolution. But I needed to do some real work.
--
Due to the move to M$ Exchange Server,
anything that is a priority, please phone.
Robin Laing
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