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Remove evolution-calendar-factory from startup

If you want to remove evolution-data-server, it will remove these at least (tested in 16.04) The following packages will be REMOVED: evolution-data-server gdm3 gnome-contacts gnome-shell libfolks-...
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How to open Exchange 2010 Shared Calendar?

To expand upon Ubuntuser's comment that helped me along the path: Set up evolution-ews and get your inbox functional. Make sure you're online, and syncing. On the Mail view, right click your exchange ...
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How to stop evolution-alarm-notify

Notifications -> Evolution Alarms Notify -> Off here's the repo if anyone wants to dig: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution
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How to stop evolution-alarm-notify

You have to copy the /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop file to your home folder by mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart/ cp /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify....
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Remove evolution-calendar-factory from startup

You can mask the units using systemd (tested on Ubuntu 18.04, Unity): systemctl --user mask evolution-addressbook-factory.service evolution-calendar-factory.service evolution-source-registry.service ...
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How to sort or manually arrange Evolution Mail Account Names in Preferences?

This issue has been addressed and now you CAN re-order folders. To do so, go into Edit/Preferences/Mail Accounts. In that view you can drag folders to the order you desire, as well as select a default ...
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MS Exchange in Gnome Online Accounts Not Syncing

This was resolved by installing the evolution-ews package. A reboot was required after installation. sudo apt-get install evolution-ews
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How can I hide the Task sidebar in Evolution calendar?

You simply have to drag the window divider over to the right while the Evolution window is not maximised: This setting will be retained on restart. Oddly enough to revert these changes you can only ...
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What happened to evolution-mapi in 16.04?

(i'm also from austria! ;-) ) i looked a little bit around, and found that evolution-mapi was deprecated. so it won't come back to the ubuntu repositories. after reading a bit further, the german ...
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Is it possible to close Evolution but still get notifications for new mail in GNOME 3 notification area?

This worked for me on Gnome 15.04: This is a How-To for making Email Notifications work for Gnome & Evolution (or any other mail client) It all started when I decided that having Evolution open ...
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How to Change Evolution's Keyboard Shortcuts?

This is what worked for me using Evolution 3.22.0, on Ubuntu 18.04, with gtk 3.22 It is important to do every one of these steps, in order, because, Evolution can quickly overwrite the keyboard ...
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How do I completely remove Evolution?

With Ubuntu 18.04 (and probably 16.04) you can't get rid of Evolution without getting rid of GNOME, so your best bet is to disable it. Building on PAStheLoD's answer and its comments, I wrote a ...
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How do I prevent Evolution calendar notifications?

I believe the change can be made in: preferences -> calendar & Tasks -> Reminders
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How to stop evolution-alarm-notify

As mentioned in Jay Schauer's comment over here. The solution is to edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop Change the line OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;XFCE;Dawati;MATE; ...
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Evolution not connecting to yahoo

I had this same issue, and figured out a solution. Using your favorite browser, go to www.yahoo.com and sign into your account Go to your inbox, and on the right hand side, click on settings. Now on ...
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Where is Gmail Archive option in Evolution?

Had trouble setting this up until I found this related question & answer Open Evolution Preferences under the Edit menu. Under Mail Accounts click once on the account in question and click the ...
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How can I remove the “To do” sidebar in Evolution?

Evolution lets you toggle whether or not the “To do” bar is shown: View → Layout → Show To Do Bar
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Themes for Evolution

Evolution doesn't have its own themes. Selecting a dark GTK+ 3.0 theme should cover most of the UI, but mail and composer views may not follow as they are web views.
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HTML Signature in Evolution

This appears to be a bug in Evolution 3.10.4 There is a simple workaround though. Write your html signature in a file called signature.html Test that it works by opening it in Firefox. Then when you ...
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Can Evolution be configured to delete invitations when I click Accept?

I recently discovered how to do this. I am not sure whether this option was there before, or if it came with an update. Anyhow for version 3.18.5.2 it is as simple as: Open Evolution Preferences (...
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Themes for Evolution

Evolution doesn't have a theme section it self, but with gtk+ ≥ 3.12 you can set a theme on a specific app like evolution. you can run a specific app with a specific theme with the command GTK_THEME=&...
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Remove evolution-calendar-factory from startup

If you're using Gnome or Gnome-Shell, it seems you cannot remove evolution-data-server, since it will remove also the entire DE root@europa:/home/user# apt remove evolution-data-server Reading ...
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View threads/conversations in Evolution just like Gmail can

Ah I barely noticed, the threading indentation is only on the Subject column. Which in my case was not the first column, reordering the columns with drag and drop helped me.
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Evolution mail says I have 700 mails but my inbox is empty

Found the solution, I turned on "lesser secure" on my gmail account and everything works. Here is the link: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps Simply click activate
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Does Ubuntu really not support Google 2-factor authentication?

Many things don't support 2FA. The usual solution is to use app passwords: An App password is a 16-digit passcode that gives an app or device permission to access your Google Account. If you use ...
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Recurring/repeated tasks in GNOME Evolution

Recurring Tasks has been a long requested feature it seems, but haven't been supported see here. A simple (and perhaps standard) work around is to schedule a recurring appointment or meeting. There ...
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How to subscribe to .ics url in Evolution calendar?

open Evolution, go to the calendar New [dropdown to] Calendar Type: On The Web put in your URL, maybe your username. my calendar didn't require credentials to access, so this worked perfectly
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Why is Evolution missing half its toolbar icons?

If you come to this question running Ubuntu 19.04 then the problem might be because of the new version of Gnome missing icons by default. Other programs are affected too, but Evolution is one of the ...
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Evolution threads extra lines before signature

You can disable the signature dashes altogether and, if you want, insert them manually into your signature. You will need a dconf editor, either the graphical one or this: sudo apt install dconf-cli ...
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