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Mitch Kapor Joins Ximian Board of Directors
miguel writes: "Today we announced that Mitch Kapor has joined our Board of Directors. He is one of the co-founders of the EFF and Lotus (You can learn more about Mitch here.) In other news, I want to point out guys to our Latest Evolution beta which comes with SSL support (IMAP and SMTP), Pilot syncing and LDAP in the default build. The team at Ximian has been busy fixing every bug you guys have reported (feature requests will have to wait until 1.0 ships, we are in feature freeze now) and we are closing bugs faster that you can report them. What are you guys going to do about this huh? HUH?"
It will work under any window manager (or at least it did the last time I tried it). Applications that use KDE or GNOME rarely need to be running under KDE or GNOME, they just need you to have the KDE/GNOME libraries installed.
Evolution works with X, so it will run on KDE, CDE, GNOME, E, WindowMaker, and pretty much anything else
The reefknot folks are building tools to allow you (and others) to do that kind of work and more. Their work is coming along pretty well. Keep an eye on them and perhaps help them out.
For me, the main reason for using ximian gnome is that they make it really simple to install gnome with an automated installer, and they include an updater, red-carpet, which makes updating the desktop easier.
The quickest way to become an atheist is to study the Bible thoroughly.
Ximian Gnome = Gnome, you are right about that. What Ximian offers is a super slick installer (Red Carpet) and you can buy support. About certain things like Galeon having issues, this is true, but has nothing to do with Ximian. Basically, many of the up and coming applications like Evolution and Galeon are using developing libraries (like Mozilla, GAL, GConf) and so there is to be expected some incompatabilities. Each piece may have "stable" releases along the way, but as a system, unless you are running raw GNOME 1.4.1, you are running a developing system. Though, if you stick with what's in RedCarpet's channels, you should have few or no issues and you will get a chance to use all this cool software before it is all realeased together.
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Pretty much word for word from this article.
Unfortunately, I can't, because Mandrake 8.1 isn't supported yet. Any idea when it might be? Seems like I recall Mandrake 8.0 support taking a while after the final release of the OS.
Evolution doesn't do that for me. With a mailbox with 1200 messages, it took about 10 minutes over a DSL link to get the headers. The next time I ran Evolution, it only took a couple of seconds to open that folder. I can't say the same for kmail, which does download the headers every time. Evolution also lets me see all of the folders on the server if I check the "override server's namespace" option and set the namespace to be empty.
This is all against a Cyrus 2.0.16 imap server.
Evolution will not load images in HTML email unless you want for it to load them. If it doesn't load the externally-referenced files, then there are no "free hits on spammer's web pages." You can set it to load all images, never load images except by request, or to load images if the sender is in your address book.
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
. It wasn't until WinWord 4 that Word didn't act like a port from DOS.
Only one problem.... WinWord versions were 1, 2 and 6, before they went to the year numbering.
Why the jump? Because MS wanted version numbers in sync with the DOS version.
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If you want to run Evolution in a fetchmail environment, it's no problem: when you set up your account, set "server type" to "Standard Unix mbox spools". You can then use Evolution in the same way that you use elm or mutt. For "Sending Email" choose "Sendmail". You can then read and send mail offline and it will queue.
One nuisance, though: I use procmail to sort my mail into separate mailboxes. It seems the only way to get Evolution to work smoothly with this setup is to pretend that each of these mailboxes is a separate account. I'd rather have better support for this mode of operation (which lets me continue to use either Evolution or elm).