[Evolution] Reporting a small bug.

Per per at nordsoft.no
Tue Sep 30 20:07:36 UTC 2014


Dear maintainers of Evolution e-mail client,

I'm using version 3.4.4 (from UI Help > About)
Package version listed with "apt-cache show evolution" is listed as:
Version: 3.12.6-1


I've noticed earlier that sometime changes in Mail Account setting seems
to sometimes not be honoured before the e-mail client is restarted.

For example, if I use Edit > Preferences and then edit a mail account
profile, settings seems to not be active until I restart evolution.

For example, I configured a postfix/dovecot setup recently, and I had
misconfigured the Mail Account setting in Evolution such that when
sending e-mail, I got a 'relayed error' message as I didn't authenticate
to the server.

I kept the e-mail editing window open, changed the settings in
preferenced for the e-mail account, and the log on the server still gave
the same error and feedback. I stored the message to the outbox, then
shutdown Evolution, and then restarted it.

Now it worked well.

I've also noticed before when I play around with various settings in
e-mail account profiles that there are trouble to have these activated
immediately.

It's not a big problem for me, but I can imagine users who input correct
settings, after having input the incorrect ones, in a mail profile is
confused when it's not working.

It's not a very big problem, but I think it still should be fixed.

Thanks.

Per R.

PS: Have you considered adding a bitcoin donation address for your
project?






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