Looking for help moving from Thunderbird to Evolution

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I think I had my first couple of emails from the list.
Question: Am I right in thinking you need to have ‘threaded conversations’ turned on in your email program? I have that turned off, which may make it less easy to understand I suspect?

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PS - Where/How do I start a thread? Do I just send an email to evolution-users@lists.osuosl.org ?
thanks

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You don’t have to, but it does make it easier to use as messages in
threads are kept together.

Two things to be aware of:

  1. It’s highly recommended to use “Reply to List” rather than just
    “Reply” or “Reply to All”. This will help in keeping threads together.
    The easiest way is just to click on the Group Reply button, which will
    do the right thing.

  2. Never introduce a new topic by replying to a thread. Even if you
    change the subject line, this will annoy people, and is called
    “hijacking”. Start a new topic by just sending an email to the list.

poc

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Exactly.

One more thing: don’t use HTML when posting on the list, or if you do
then make sure there’s a text/alternative as well.

Also, when replying to a post please quote the part you’re commenting
on (the easy way is to mark the relevant text in the post before
hitting Reply, and Evolution will quote it for you), then add your
comments below (as I’m doing here). “Top-posting” is annoying.

poc

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Thanks, but your post raised a funny point… I am still on Thunderbird currently! I am going to install Evolution on a spare machine later today (to have a play around and see how to set up ‘local folders’), I will be able to use the list better after that, by the sound of it.
thanks again

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A quick question if I may. I read about ‘unified inbox’. Does Evolution enforce that or is it optional? I quite like having accounts listed separately so I can see inbox/sent/delete etc for several imap accounts separately. Is that possible in Evolution?
thanks

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All received mail from any POP accounts will by default end up in the local folder “On This Computer > Inbox”. You can set up filters to move messages to folders based on their recipient address: Sign in · GitLab . Each IMAP account has its own separate top node in the account/folder pane.

See also Sign in · GitLab

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I really wish that guide has some images!

I only use IMAP so sounds like it will work how I prefer, seperate sets of server folders /node for each account, if so that’s great. thanks

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It will work fine in IMAP. Evolution is primarily an IMAP client (at
least originally) though it does support other protocols.

poc

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You can certainly use the list with TBird, or with any other modern
email client, but generally people use Evo because that’s why they’re
on the list in the first place.

poc

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Oh, I was referring to your comment about “reply to list” and “group reply” - I assumed they were Evolution features/buttons that I don’t have in Thunderbird.

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Hence the importance of quoting context in replies.

“Group reply” is just a shortcut that gets you “Reply to List” or
“Reply All” according to context (briefly, if someone replies using
“Reply All” then their reply omits list information in its headers, so
subsequent replies in that subthread can no longer use “Reply to List”.
If you just use “Group Reply” then you don’t have to think about this.

TB may support a Reply to List function. It definitely supports Reply
All.

poc

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