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Subject:    Re: [Evolution] Message size threshold for download?
From:       Frank K <frankk () oregoncoast ! com>
Date:       2010-03-24 16:32:24
Message-ID: 4BAA3E98.8000406 () oregoncoast ! com
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Mailman,
Please help me!
I need some help resolving duplicate email addresses. None of my emails 
to Gnome are being delivered!
Registeration gets me this: Sorry, but that e-mail address is already 
registered to a user.
So is this contact attempt going to get me another rejection?
Frank K

On 03/21/2010 05:41 PM, FrankK wrote:
> Thank you Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: evolution-list-bounces@gnome.org
> [mailto:evolution-list-bounces@gnome.org] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Callaghan
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 11:10 AM
> To: evolution-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Message size threshold for download?
>
> On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 09:46 -0700, FrankK wrote:
> [...]
>    
>> kmail also has a preferred text editor option. It will invoke OOwriter,
>>      
> but
>    
>> doesn't accept the formatted output.
>>
>> The feature set I use from the word processor is very limited, but
>>      
> addictive
>    
>> to use. It may be simpler for an email client enhance its formatting
>> features rather than provide the interface to a word processor.
>>
>> For the record my formatting feature set includes: auto completion,
>> correction, capitalization, grammar as well as spelling check and
>>      
> paragraph
>    
>> styles. Paragraph styles include fonts and line to line spacing.
>>
>> I don't have a good feel for the complexity involved with say paragraph
>> styles and grammar check. If these features were added to Evo for example,
>> would that make Evo a word processor? Heboland
>>      
> The trouble with all this is that means the people who receive your mail
> also have to be able to interpret it, and with some guarantee of seeing
> the same results. MS can do this by forcing everyone to use Outlook and
> Word (and those who don't are simply declared "non-standard"), but
> that's not feasible in an open environment. The existing Rich Text
> facilities may cover some of what you want (have you tried them?) but
> adding more and more functionality to the composer is a mug's game.
> Where does it all end?
>
> poc
>
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> Your point is well taken, Patrick. I could be wrong about this, but isn't
> HTML capable of transmitting formatted documents? Why not us it as the
> standard for formatted messages?
>
> For a long time I've used either HTML or text. Composing with outlook and
> word, in HTML, I see things like degree symbols displayed in mail received
> by email clients that are not capable of creating such symbols.
>
> Using a combination of an HTML thunderbird composer and OOwriter as a
> stand-alone editor, I can cut and paste from OO into the composer and send
> the formatted document as HTML.
>
> Sometimes a composer will complain about a formatted paste so there may be
> limit to HTML's capability. What I've seen is a warning to the effect
> symbols aren't included in Unicode-8 or some such.
>
> Am I correct about HTML? Heboland
>
>
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