[ale] HOW2 enable "attachments" under Evolution ?

Courtney Thomas ccthomas at joimail.com
Thu Apr 28 08:37:13 EDT 2005


Thank you Stephan. If I learn a better way I'll let you know.

I'm quite surprised to learn of Evolution's cumbersomeness.

Don't those people ever use it :-)

Courtney


On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 09:25, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 10:04, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > As always, thanks Keith.
> > 
> > Yes, I'm able to select which file to attach, but after clicking on it,
> > nothing appears in the attachment window. I've tried this with vi
> > created text files as well as screen output captured with >>.
> > 
> > Incidentally, I often edit an email in the reply window before sending
> > and often wish to print it out for archiving but don't see any print
> > capability under the reply window. Any way to do this ?
> 
> Save Draft.
> Go to the Drafts folder and print it.
> 
> If there is a better way - I would love to hear about it.
> 
> > 
> > Appreciatively,
> > 
> > Courtney
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 00:34, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> > > Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > > > When I try to attach a file under Evolution's email, nothin' happens.
> > > > 
> > > > What's wrong ?
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > Courtney
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Courtney,
> > > 
> > >   Evo doesn't like your attachment?  At what point does 'nothing happen'?  Do you even get a file chooser to pick which file you want to attach?
> > > 
> > >   I'd suggest running Evo from the command line and see if it spits out any error messages to the console.
> > > 
> > >   You should probably try a evo --force-shutdown to kill the background daemons before starting it on the command line.
> > > 
> > >   If that doesn't reveal any errors, try running it from strace (slow, yes, but it should reveal what is really going on in the background).
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Lost Downunder,
> > >   Keith
> > > 
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