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evolution on ubuntu

jelly — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:04:18 +0000

Well I deleted the account, restarted evolution and set it up, now it won’t sync up at all, I keep getting “Error while refreshing folder messages” what a pity I was really liking ubuntu

I think I’ll go cry while using vista.

Hopefully some good exchange connector will come out of the new mozilla mail foundation. They may be my only hope to continue.

Ubuntu email saga

jelly — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:55:52 +0000

Well I’m pretty much dead in the water now, on one hand I have evolution over OWA connector, which seems to be in worse shape than ever, it crashes all the time, I cannot send a single mail because they all get trapped in the outbox, I can’t refresh the inbox (there are mails in there that are deleted from the server) I’m going to try to delete the entire account and re-add it and see if that works.j

on the other hand I have thunderbird over IMAP. Pulls down email from the inbox very well, however doesn’t pull down any of the sub folders,or my contacts or calendar events

I’m a linux man without and email client

evolution in ubuntu

jelly — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:26:56 +0000

Well I continue to have connection problems. Everyting else in Ubuntu seems rock solid but the OWA connector for evolution is definitely not up to speed. I may change to imap for a bit and see if I have better luck with that, biggest down side is I won’t be able to sync up the calendar.

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04

jelly — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:10:21 +0000

The full version has been realeased from Ubuntu today. I am downloading it as we speak so I can set it up on one of the users currently running 7.10.

I hope this is a very good stable release but from what I have seen on my computer the 8.04 beta was better than the 7.10 stable release Of course I still get alot of errors in evolution but other than that everything has been solid.

Download link

The mirrors seem to be getting slammed right now, took me about 3 until I got one that wasn’t too busy.

evolution junk mail

jelly — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:50:33 +0000

One of my biggest issues today is that junkmail is getting filtered in evolution so that it doesn’t show up in in the inbox. However these emails are still located on the exchange server. So they are getting deleted or moved out of the inbox (moved where I don’t know) but they are not getting the same thing done on exchange.

For instance I look at the evolution inbox and I have 21 emails, I log into OWA on exchange and I have 150. I know its the filtered emails because they all show as read so evolution is looking at them and flagging them as junk. However for some reason not deleting them off of exchange.

Ubuntu Desktop

jelly — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:28:39 +0000

Well with updates yesterday Ubuntu managed to break my evolution and flash in firefox However with the updates today everything seems to be fixed and running smooth. I was forced to run vista yesterday because of all the problems I was having, today is much better and I’m back on linux. I still need to figure out some way to search evolution exchange, because with 2 gb worth of emails on there I need to search for things numerous times throughout the day.

Evolution Frustrations

jelly — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:25:32 +0000

I continue to have more and more frustrations with Evolution’s exchange connector.

It ran really good yesterday and was happy today when I saw updates today for evolution. However after installing it seems to work worse than before. I’ve got alot of things to do today so I’m going to stick with vista until I get them done and then give it another go.

I’m also trying to figure out a way to get beagle to index the exchange emails. Evolution crashes evertime I try to search the exchange emails so I’m hoping if I can get beagle to work then I won’t have to worry about that.

Finally got my java working in ubuntu.

jelly — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:05:53 +0000

To refresh, I could always get java installed, however if I installed Sun JRE 1.6 my desktop applications would run, but not my web applets. If I installed the IceTea version that mozilla wanted it would fix my Webaps and they would work however it would break my desktop applications.

Installed Sun JRE package from Synaptic, as before desktop aps work, web aps don’t.

Then went into firefox and installed IceTea, as before web aps work, desktop aps don’t.

then ran

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

Now both Webaps and Desktop aps are working fine.

Biggest problem with Linux versus windows.

jelly — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:56:54 +0000

Is user laziness, and I find myself to be a big culprit. I find some things so much easier on Linux than windows. But I find more and more things that are easier on windows than linux, and not because linux is lacking, just that I’ve used windows for many years, and its second nature to me. I can do it much faster on Windows because I don’t even have to link about it, my mind already knows where all the points to click are. With Linux I need to think about it more and there is the time to set it up and I find myself going okay this will take 5 minutes in Windows, or 20 minutes in linux.

The Truth is, if I took the time to spend the 20 minutes on Linux the next time I tried to do it it would probably take 10 minutes, and then the next time 5. But its trying to teach my brain not to go the easy way seeem sto be the hardest thing to do.

Biggest example. I have all my subversion repostiories already linked in windows, and I’ve been using netbeans for years. It takes me 2 minutes to do an update with Tortoise SVN and go into netbeans, compile, test and deploy knew aps. I’ve done it every morning for 3 years. In linux theoretically it should be even easier since in NetBeans 6 it works as the subversion client. However I don’t have everything set up yet, so there is going to be a 30 minute setup while I link to all the subversion repostitories, assign all the libraries etc. etc. etc. Its very lazy of me I know but its so much simpler just to reboot into vista, compile deploy, then reboot back to linux.

I really need convince myself to not do that. I think might have to be something where you need to do it cold turkey, don’t dual boot, just go 100% linux and no windows. Otherwise windows will just be your crutch.

Its very hard to do but if you have the option of going back to windows you will, not because its better, but because its more familiar.

evolution missing emails from exchange

jelly — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:35:40 +0000

I had a user today who had emails missing from their inbox in evolution (on Ubunutu). If they went into the exchange owa they could see that they were still all on the server however they were not in their evolution inbox.

to fix this I shutdown the evolution client

evolution --force-shutdown

Then deleted the the .evolution/exchange folder and .evolution/mail/exchange folder

rm -r .evolution/exchange

rm -r .evolution/mail/exchange

Then restart evolution and all the emails should be there.