sorted by: recent | see :
popular
Content Tagged with Evolution + Ubuntu
Howto use Truecrypt and Evolution
first you need to make sure you have installed Truecrypt and follow this procedure
Then, create the link to the encrypted container as follows:
1. For a new Ubuntu installation, start Evolution normally and go through the configuration questions. Then close Evolution
2. Mount the encrypted drive (in my case it is mounted at /media/truecrypt1) and create a directory in which to store the evolution-data (in my case it is at /media/truecrypt1/Datafile/evolution):
3. Navigate to the /home/user directory and type the following:
sudo rm -f -r .evolution (you will want to copy the .evolution directory before removing it if you already have valuable files there)
ln -s /media/truecrypt1/Datafile/evolution .evolution
4. Verify that the link brings you to the mounted drive location.
5. Start Evolution and, voila, it should be storing data into the encrypted drive.
Not only is your evolution data encrypted, but it is in a container you can easily backup, etc.
Howto use Truecrypt and Evolution
first you need to make sure you have installed Truecrypt and follow this procedure
Then, create the link to the encrypted container as follows:
1. For a new Ubuntu installation, start Evolution normally and go through the configuration questions. Then close Evolution
2. Mount the encrypted drive (in my case it is mounted at /media/truecrypt1) and create a directory in which to store the evolution-data (in my case it is at /media/truecrypt1/Datafile/evolution):
3. Navigate to the /home/user directory and type the following:
sudo rm -f -r .evolution (you will want to copy the .evolution directory before removing it if you already have valuable files there)
ln -s /media/truecrypt1/Datafile/evolution .evolution
4. Verify that the link brings you to the mounted drive location.
5. Start Evolution and, voila, it should be storing data into the encrypted drive.
Not only is your evolution data encrypted, but it is in a container you can easily backup, etc.
Zimbra Connector for Novell Evolution (Nishra.com)
How To Import mails from Evolution to Thunderbird
If you want to Import your mails from Evolution to Thunderbird there is very nice utility called MboxImport .
Thunderbird, like many other email clients, uses the mbox format to archive the emails.It's curious that Thundebird has not a function that let you import or export files in this format and this lack is sometimes a problem when you want to move the accounts from a pc to another one or when you want to migrate (for example) from Mozilla to Thunderbird.Anyway this kind of import can be made very easily copying the mbox file into the directory "Local Folders" (it is inside the profile directory) with Thunderbird close; restarting the program, the mbox file will be visible as sub folder of Local Folders.To export, you must just copy the email files that are inside the account's folder.This method can give some troubles, above all for people not very expert with Thunderbird, because the profile's files are into a hidden directory, whose path changes with the operative systems or also with personal needs.
First you need to download MboxImport from here
Install MboxImport in Thunderbird
In Thunderbird, go in "Tools" --> "Extensions" and click on "Install";
pick the xpi file you downloaded and follow the instructions;
restart Thunderbird.
To export, it's sufficient a right-click on the folder or on the account and to choose the voice you want from the menu "Import/export".
Once you have saved all the folders/files into the Mbox format, just go into Evolution and select "Import" and follow the wizard using "a single file import" and select your xxxx.mbox file and then select which folder in Evolution you want to import into.
For importing the address book from Thunderbird to Evolution, use T-birds address book export function and save the address book as a .csv file.After finishing address book check everything is fine or not.
import
thunderbird
to
from
Evolution
Ubuntu
Should
be
mails
mboximport
Sylpheed-Claws is Claws Mail
Sylpheed-Claws, the email client for Linux has a new name - Claws Mail.
Though this is not exactly news (the earliest “official” announcement I can find is from December 04, 2006), I just came across the news today.
I have been a sylpheed-claws Claws Mail user ever since I tried it for the first time. There is no email client that fit my needs the way Claws did. Claws’ beauty lies in its speed — of start up, synchornizing and in general, of all operations. The sensibility of the software surprised me, since it provided those features that I wanted most and felt the lack of earlier. You can “harvest” email addresses from a folder full of emails, and so many other small things that I forget. Never, ever has it crashed on me, which is more than I can say of other clients.
In fact, many times over the last few months, I have thought of writing down what exactly makes Claws superior, in my opinion. I held back since it could be some work to make notes, now that I am used to Claws. I still use Thunderbird on a Windows XP machine occasionally. It has been ages since I used Evolution, which I found heavy, slow and sometimes unresponsive. If you guys are interested, I can start keeping notes and publish an article introducing claws(though it really needs no introduction. 
)
How To Import mails from Evolution to Thunderbird
If you want to Import your mails from Evolution to Thunderbird there is very nice utility called MboxImport .
Thunderbird, like many other email clients, uses the mbox format to archive the emails.It's curious that Thundebird has not a function that let you import or export files in this format and this lack is sometimes a problem when you want to move the accounts from a pc to another one or when you want to migrate (for example) from Mozilla to Thunderbird.Anyway this kind of import can be made very easily copying the mbox file into the directory "Local Folders" (it is inside the profile directory) with Thunderbird close; restarting the program, the mbox file will be visibile as subfolder of Local Folders.To export, you must just copy the email files that are inside the account's folder.This method can give some troubles, above all for people not very expert with Thunderbird, because the profile's files are into a hidden directory, whose path changes with the operative systems or also with personal needs.
First you need to download MboxImport from here
Install MboxImport in Thunderbird
In Thunderbird, go in "Tools" --> "Extensions" and click on "Install";
pick the xpi file you downloaded and follow the instructions;
restart Thunderbird.
To export, it's sufficient a right-click on the folder or on the account and to choose the voice you want from the menu "Import/export".
Once you have saved all the folders/files into the Mbox format, just go into Evolution and select "Import" and follow the wizard using "a single file import" and select your xxxx.mbox file and then select which folder in Evolution you want to import into.
For importing the address book from Thunderbird to Evolution, use T-birds address book export function and save the address book as a .csv file.After finishing address book check everything is fine or not.
Sylpheed-Claws is Claws Mail
Sylpheed-Claws, the email client for Linux has a new name - Claws Mail.
Though this is not exactly news (the earliest “official” announcement I can find is from December 04, 2006), I just came across the news today.
I have been a sylpheed-claws Claws Mail user ever since I tried it for the first time. There is no email client that fit my needs the way Claws did. Claws’ beauty lies in its speed — of start up, synchornizing and in general, of all operations. The sensibility of the software surprised me, since it provided those features that I wanted most and felt the lack of earlier. You can “harvest” email addresses from a folder full of emails, and so many other small things that I forget. Never, ever has it crashed on me, which is more than I can say of other clients.
In fact, many times over the last few months, I have thought of writing down what exactly makes Claws superior, in my opinion. I held back since it could be some work to make notes, now that I am used to Claws. I still use Thunderbird on a Windows XP machine occasionally. It has been ages since I used Evolution, which I found heavy, slow and sometimes unresponsive. If you guys are interested, I can start keeping notes and publish an article introducing claws(though it really needs no introduction. )
Sync Evolution Calendar with Google Calendar
Not so much a detailed guide as a couple of links to help me out in the future:
How to sync your google calendar with Evolution
The access is “read-only” which means you cannot add events in Evolution and have them show up in your google calendar, but your events in google calendar will be available in Evolution for you to read.
To circumvent the problem of the sync described above not being a “true” two-way sync, one can use scheduleworld as a go-between. This way, Evolution and Google Calendar both sync to scheduleworld, and everything is hunky-dory.
A guide to sync Google calendar using scheduleworld is available, but the guide (unfortunately) deals with MS Outlook primarily.
Many of the concepts from the guide can be usd with Evolution. The missing link is the SyncEvolution plugin for Evolution. There is a thread at Ubuntu Forums that explains how to get going with SyncEvolution. So put it all together, and you can sync your Evolution Calendar with your Google Calendar.
Maybe we should all try and add a few million more users to Ubuntu, and then perhaps Google and everyone else will make it easier for us folks to sync and inter-operate seamlessly with their services. Googlers use Ubuntu - I wonder why a few of them won’t spend their quota of free/creative weekly hours to make things easier for us folks
