Great news for @EvolutionGnome users: in Evolution 3.58 (expected to ship alongside GNOME 49 in Q4 2025), the calendar events conflict checks in meeting invitations received via email will now respect the user preferences; this will boost performance quite a bit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1441#note_2382738

We will need someone to implement the corresponding per-calendar property in #GNOMECalendar's calendars management GUI, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1297

#performance #GNOME #email #calendaring

If you are using the @EvolutionGnome mail client on @ubuntu and you are writing e-mails in plain text (as you should to keep simple things simple), you have probably heard people complain to you about forced hard line breaks that look stupid on cell phones. There is no setting in the client to switch that off, but you can

gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.mail composer-word-wrap-length -1

to soft-wrap. Whenever you open the settings dialog again, it will reset to 31 of all things, so don't...

Evolution 3.56 is now available in the stable channel on :flatpak: #Flathub, too. What is new? A lots of smaller improvements and fixes. Especially those using Microsoft 365 may appreciate this release because there is improved support for Graph API.

Enjoy!

@ppulfer There are changelogs:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/blob/gnome-48/NEWS?ref_type=heads
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-/blob/gnome-48/NEWS?ref_type=heads
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-ews/-/blob/gnome-48/NEWS?ref_type=heads

Not so easy to read, but everything is in them.

Evolution 3.56 is being released today. We've already shipped it in the beta channel on :flatpak: #Flathub and the update for the stable channel is in the process.

I'm normally a @thunderbird user, and I love it, but decided to give @EvolutionGnome a try since it's been a few years. I can safely say that we, in the Open Source community, have some awesome choices.

Happy to announce that the @EvolutionGnome #email / #PIM application is now available in @fedora #EPEL #EPEL10 for those of you on @centos Stream or @almalinux #AlmaLinuxKitten or one of the EL10 betas!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2344701

#Linux
#MUA
#SoftwarePackaging

@Inmod Hi, you can create a new search. Go to Search->Edit Saved Searches->Add. The rule should be: [Status] [is not] [Read]. Then you will find it in the search menu (left from the search field). By Alt+W, you switch focus to it and by Up/Down arrows you switch between all and unread messages.

@Inmod Hi, you can create a new search. Go to Search->Edit Saved Searches->Add. The rule should be: [Status] [is not] [Read]. Then you will find it in the search menu (left from the search field). By Alt+W, you switch focus to it and by Up/Down arrows you switch between all and unread messages.

@cynical13 Andre helps with triaging, but is sometimes too quick on tickets. Don't worry, we will deal with it.

@cynical13 It is not currently possible. You can only change folder icons permanently. But it shouldn't be difficult to implement, so feel free to file an RFE, we will definitely look at it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues

Evolution 3.55.1, the first development version of the upcoming release, is already available in the beta channel on @flathub. Feedback appreciated. 😉

#development #flathub #flatpak

#ADHD folks & #minimalism fans with overflowing #email inboxes (or some #GNOME devs with too many mailing lists & bug tracker emails) might be pleased to discover that @EvolutionGnome has a secret gsetting (that you can toggle in dconf-editor) to disable unread mail counts for folders in the sidebar: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/971#note_1818656

Because what's the point of knowing you have 787 unread emails instead of 785, anyway? :patcat:

Wish I had per-folder notifications to go with that: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/672

@EvolutionGnome

Totally shocked by how easy it was to get #Evolution to check #ProtonMail and #MS #Exchange for my work accounts. So glad I switched back to #Xfce and give it another shot!

If you're an Evolution user, how long have you been using it?

@amarok @pk84 What about Evolution? 😉

And the one is @triskelion!

Wow, 1000 followers. We never hoped to have so many when we left Twitter and moved here. Thank you!

999 followers. Who is going to be the 1000th? 😉

I cannot _believe_ that in 20 years of using @EvolutionGnome, I had never realized until now that I could use this setting so that people in the emails header show up with cleanly readable hyperlinked names instead of "the name <the email address>":

Mail Preferences > Headers > turn off "Show full mail addresses in message preview"

So much cleaner, more compact and faster to look at, especially when you have 5-15 people in C.C.!

#GNOME #email #productivity #UX

@chris @nekohayo there has been quite a lot of UI modernization since 3.44. It's definitely worth running the latest version not only for the look.