Hi list,
I'm just trying out evolution as my new mail client. The problem is that I cant find a option to wrap the lines at 72 characters i.e. I cant set the wrapping! There is no option to set the wrapping size anywhere! Anybody using evolution?? How do I configure the client?
Thanks.
On 17-Jan-07, at 2:44 AM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I'm just trying out evolution as my new mail client. The problem is that I cant find a option to wrap the lines at 72 characters i.e. I cant set the wrapping! There is no option to set the wrapping size anywhere! Anybody using evolution
tried it in my redhat days - sucked bigtime, ages to load, huge memory consumption. Hear it has gone downhill since
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 07:31 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 17-Jan-07, at 2:44 AM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I'm just trying out evolution as my new mail client. The problem is that I cant find a option to wrap the lines at 72 characters i.e. I cant set the wrapping! There is no option to set the wrapping size anywhere! Anybody using evolution
tried it in my redhat days - sucked bigtime, ages to load, huge memory consumption. Hear it has gone downhill since
I too used to think it sucked. But as of today its faster than kmail. Thats just probably because I'm using Gnome right now instead of KDE. But surely someone should be using evolution, right? Or am I the only one??? =P
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 11:53 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I too used to think it sucked. But as of today its faster than kmail. Thats just probably because I'm using Gnome right now instead of KDE. But surely someone should be using evolution, right? Or am I the only one??? =P
I use evolution (/me ducks to avoid the dirty looks) For the life of me I can't figure out how to configure line wrapping in evolution. It seems to do it at 72 characters - so I'm not complaining as yet. It must part of the Gnome team's "Users are too stupid to configure" philosophy.
-gabin
ps: if someone can tell me how to get fortunes as signatures in thunderbird I'll switch my loyalties faster than a cheap double agent.
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Gabin Kattukaran wrote:
ps: if someone can tell me how to get fortunes as signatures in thunderbird I'll switch my loyalties faster than a cheap double agent.
Use the fortune to output to a file (the same file each time), Edit -> Account Settings -> Signature (use the filename with the path) cf. Attach this signature
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On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 16:50 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
Use the fortune to output to a file (the same file each time), Edit -> Account Settings -> Signature (use the filename with the path) cf. Attach this signature
Of course, then I'd have to figure out a way to trigger fortune's output every time I need to compose a mail....
-gabin
Hi
( bringing out a thread from the dead )
On 1/17/07, Gabin Kattukaran boon@vsnl.com wrote:
I use evolution (/me ducks to avoid the dirty looks) For the life of me I can't figure out how to configure line wrapping in evolution. It seems to do it at 72 characters - so I'm not complaining as yet. It must part of the Gnome team's "Users are too stupid to configure" philosophy.
-gabin
ps: if someone can tell me how to get fortunes as signatures in thunderbird I'll switch my loyalties faster than a cheap double agent.
I was working on KMail today and this thread came to my mind. Apparently, KMail does both the things right - we can set the wordwrap column limit and pretty much run any command whose output we want as a signature. Actually, the signature has 3 options - 1) fixed text, 2) from a given file and 3) Output of a command. I had been using (1) for a long time. I just checked (3), works great.
Cheers!
Pradeepto
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 07:31 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 17-Jan-07, at 2:44 AM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I'm just trying out evolution as my new mail client. The problem is that I cant find a option to wrap the lines at 72 characters i.e. I cant set the wrapping! There is no option to set the wrapping size anywhere! Anybody using evolution
tried it in my redhat days - sucked bigtime, ages to load, huge memory consumption. Hear it has gone downhill since
I too used to think it sucked. But as of today its faster than kmail. Thats just probably because I'm using Gnome right now instead of KDE. But surely someone should be using evolution, right? Or am I the only one??? =P
In the 'compose message' window, use "Ctrl+L" to line wrap OR Format --> Wrap Lines.
No way (that i could find) to set the number of columns though.
Dhawal Doshy wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 07:31 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 17-Jan-07, at 2:44 AM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I'm just trying out evolution as my new mail client. The problem is that I cant find a option to wrap the lines at 72 characters i.e. I cant set the wrapping! There is no option to set the wrapping size anywhere! Anybody using evolution
tried it in my redhat days - sucked bigtime, ages to load, huge memory consumption. Hear it has gone downhill since
I too used to think it sucked. But as of today its faster than kmail. Thats just probably because I'm using Gnome right now instead of KDE. But surely someone should be using evolution, right? Or am I the only one??? =P
In the 'compose message' window, use "Ctrl+L" to line wrap OR Format --> Wrap Lines.
No way (that i could find) to set the number of columns though.
btw, thats version 2.8.2.1 (gnome on fc6)
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 14:09 +0530, Dhawal Doshy wrote:
In the 'compose message' window, use "Ctrl+L" to line wrap OR Format --> Wrap Lines.
No way (that i could find) to set the number of columns though.
btw, thats version 2.8.2.1 (gnome on fc6)
Its there in 2.6.0 even but I still cant figure out WHEN its enabled and WHEN it gets disabled! =P I *hate* this attitude of the Gnome developers which says "we know what the user wants more than he knows himself". Utter nonsense...! For now its working fine. If my line wrapping goes haywire then blame the gnome developers, not me! =P
Dear Dinesh,
On 1/17/07, Dinesh Joshi <dinesh dot a dot joshi at gmail dot com> wrote:
Hi list,
I'm just trying out evolution as my new mail client. The problem is that I cant find a option to wrap the lines at 72 characters i.e. I cant set the wrapping! There is no option to set the wrapping size anywhere! Anybody using evolution?? How do I configure the client?
The problem may be due to composing mail as HTML. Switch text format by default and it should take care line wrapping automatically. I never had problem with Evolution except occasional crash.
Used to use Evolution 1.2 on RH9 for almost 2 years. Now using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS with 2.6.1. The only problem is 2.6.1 will not import the address book of 1.2 :-(
Dinesh A. Joshi
HTH With regards,
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 12:14 +0530, Dinesh Shah wrote:
The problem may be due to composing mail as HTML. Switch text format by default and it should take care line wrapping automatically. I never had problem with Evolution except occasional crash.
I never compose email as HTML. Its always in the text mode. I double checked it. For now, I guess its managing the wrapping fine.
Used to use Evolution 1.2 on RH9 for almost 2 years. Now using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS with 2.6.1. The only problem is 2.6.1 will not import the address book of 1.2 :-(
I'm on FC5 and evolution 2.6.0. Its looking fine :)
On 17-Jan-07, at 12:14 PM, Dinesh Shah wrote:
by default and it should take care line wrapping automatically. I never had problem with Evolution except occasional crash.
sounds windozy - an occasional crash is taken in ones stride
Dear Kenneth,
On 1/17/07, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
sounds windozy - an occasional crash is taken in ones stride
True... :-)
But fortunately that was the only s/w crashing without effecting the OS. A kill command and restart of the app was only thing required. And I have never lost *any* mail, including the the ones I was writing while the crash happened. :-)
Tried to switch to ThunderBird. But somehow that never happened. :-(
-- regards
Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon@au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
With regards,
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Dinesh Joshi -
Dinesh Shah -
Gabin Kattukaran -
Kenneth Gonsalves -
Pradeepto Bhattacharya -
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay