Questions related to email setup and troubleshooting. Most questions can be tagged with your email client (such as "thunderbird" or "evolution")
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Can I edit which icons appear in the Unity dash?
When I open the dash in 11.04, I get two rows of icons. The first row contains 'lenses' that take me to lists of applicaitons/files; the second row opens specific applications - Browse the Web, View ...
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3answers
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Exchange with Evolution or any other mail client
I see other questions about this, no answers and no one with a completely similar question.
I work for a place with an Exchange 2007 server. There is an http://owa.ourserver.com that is accessible ...
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Can I make links to email addresses open Gmail instead of Evolution?
When I click on a link to an email address in Firefox or Google Chrome a "Welcome to Evolution" screen appears. Can I make Gmail open instead, or at the very least disable Evolution from running?
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1answer
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Email-client such as Evolution with Sent-emails -folder?
I zwitched on Desktop from Mutt to Evolution to some extent. Now I cannot find my sent emails so where are the sent -emails when they are sent with Evolution -email-program?
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1answer
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Sync Google Calendar Tasks with Evolution
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and prefer Evolution to Thunderbird as my mail manager and organiser. I run a gmail account and use the calendar a lot to organise future meetings,appointments and tasks.I ...
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3answers
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How can I setup a Mail Transfer Agent?
I intend to use mutt to send automated emails via cron or at with attachments to my gmail address when particular events happen on my Ubuntu server. Currently, mutt cannot send email to external ...
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2answers
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How read local email in thunderbird?
I just install postfix and configure it for local email only as a way to have a sendmail program and test my PHP scripts. My question is, how can I use an HTML capable email client like Thunderbird to ...
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2answers
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How to configure Thunderbird to notify new mails only in certain folders?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 and recently started using Thunderbird.
I have GMail account and have configured a lot of Labels in it, all of which appear as folders in Thunderbird. Most of these are just ...
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0answers
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Zimbra desktop as default email and calendar application [closed]
I am reading and looking after this for some time without an answer. I would like to define Zimbra Desktop as my default e-mail and calendar and contact application in ubuntu 11.10, how can i do it?
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1answer
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X-notifier doesn't work in Chromium Browser
It just keeps checking in vain.
Also cannot import or export data, but get this error
I use the latest versions of both in Lubuntu 12.04.
In Google Chrome it works.
What could it be the ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to obtain an e-mail address like myname.surname@ubuntu.com
Being an Ubuntu user for about 3 years, is it possible to obtain an e-mail address like myname.surname@ubuntu.com ?
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Evolution cannot send mail from Yahoo or Hotmail
I recently installed Ubuntu and set up Evolution E-Mail. Although I can receive incoming email perfectly, I can't send any messages. These just go to the Evolution Outbox and stay there.
I am using ...
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1answer
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How to change my the From: address in mutt?
When I use mutt under Ubuntu like below, my email address is shown as maemo@maemo-TomXue. I want to change it but didn't find how to do, who could help me? Thanks!
y:Send q:Abort t:To c:CC s:Subj ...
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3answers
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How can I get notifications of new emails?
I was wondering, is there any way to get an on-screen notification when a new email is received, like in Google talk.
For example, like this:
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4answers
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How do I set up an email server?
My VPS is running Ubuntu, and I'd like to be able to receive email to my domain.
How do I easily set up a mail server to do this?
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2answers
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Setup DKIM (DomainKeys) for Ubuntu, Postfix and Mailman
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with Postfix and Mailman. I want to set up DKIM. (DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM is the successor to Yahoo's "DomainKeys". It incorporate's Cisco's Identified Mail).
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Thunderbird or Evolution? [closed]
Before I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 (I formatted my harddisk and installed it), I used thunderbird.
Now I wanted to test out evolution. I think it's pretty good, because there are integrated ...
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5answers
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Changing email application in Preferred Applications to GMail?
I'm trying to change the Preferred Application for email. I have installed the package desktop-webmail, but there is no new option under System - Preferences - Preferred Application as you would ...
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2answers
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Email notification icon for panel
The standard Indicator Applet 0.4.6 on a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10 doesn't achieve what I am looking for.
Can someone recommend an alternative applet to notify when new emails arrive. It should ...
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4answers
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How do I make Evolution check and notify new emails, without keeping main UI open? [closed]
How do I make Evolution keep checking my emails and notifying in the indicator applet without keeping the main UI open?
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1answer
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evolution mapi not working in 13.04
After installing evolution-mapi in Ubuntu 13.04, I am getting this error
(evolution:8018): camel-CRITICAL **: camel_provider_list: Could not load ...
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1answer
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Can I “speak IMAP” and review my actual mail quota?
I'm trying to troubleshoot a frustrating inbox quota issue. Thunderbird says my inbox is 80% full. My ISP says it isn't. We made some tweaks and I should have 2G available (it had been "unlimited"). ...
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1answer
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Mutt not working due to “gnutls_handshake: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.” error
I am expecting lots of problem trying to make mutt work in Ubuntu 12.04.
Here is my .muttrc : http://paste.ubuntu.com/1273585/
Here is the bug I am getting when i tried to connect.
gnutls_handshake: ...
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1answer
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Thunderbird says my inbox is 80% full; ISP says no limit. What gives?
Thunderbird has been reporting that I'm using 81% of my inbox quota, but my ISP says I have no inbox quota. One of them is wrong. How do I go about figuring out who?
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1answer
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How can I highlight paragraphs in emails and add private notes to them?
I would like to highlight parts of emails, without having to print them out and use a highlighter pen. I also want to add notes. I ideally want to see the highlights appear when I view an email a ...
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1answer
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cannot send mail to localhost with postfix: Temporary lookup failure
I removed postfix, tried Apache James, removed James, and now cannot get postfix working again:
to my knowledge, I'm using postfix correctly as so:
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ telnet localhost 25
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1answer
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How do I get Evolution to apply filters automatically?
I am using an IMAP email account. I created a filter in Evolution to move email from a specific high-volume source into a particular folder, to keep the Inbox uncluttered. I noticed that incoming ...
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1answer
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MeMenu not indicating new mail
The MeMenu used to change color when new e-mails arrived. With 11.10 and now 12.04, this is no longer the case. As I understand, this is due to the default use of Thunderbird instead of Evolution. Is ...
