Having an Evolution and Mail notification Problem?

[Robin Laing]

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