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This article was first written in April 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/118)

Create the file /etc/evolution-beeznest-signature.skeleton and adapt it to your needs [1]:

FULLNAME
BeezNest
Web: http://www.beeznest.net
E-mail: info@beeznest.net

Create the file /etc/evolution-gconf-signature.skeleton [

This article was first written in April 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/116)

The configuration is stored in gconf under the namespace /apps/evolution/mail. To list its content:

$ gconftool-2 --recursive-list /apps/evolution/mail

This article was first written in March 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/113)

You have to be root to do this, so be careful [1]. Edit the file evolution-mail-message.xml in /usr/share/evolution/1.4/ui/ or /opt/gnome/share/evolution/1.4/ui/ (depending on your distribution). Search for example for MessageReplyList and add/change the accel-key you want. Restart GNOME for the change to t

This article was first written in February 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/111)

To activate the spell-checker in Ximian Evolution (tested on Debian Sarge, but should apply to any Evolution 1.4.x and later), install the gnome-spell package and the aspell dictionaries matching the languages you want to use. Then go in the Tools / Parameters / Composer / Spell-checking menu and activate the dictionaries ou want to use.

If one use the thread-sorting of e-mails, he may fall into the problem that Ximian/Novell Evolution does follow the In-Reply-To: header to understand that two mails are of the same thread. Microsoft Outlook has a different way to do it [1], and it breaks Evolution's sorting.

This article was first written in March 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/112)

It is sometimes usefull to save the local (i.e. stored on your local hard-drive) addressbook of Ximian Evolution for backup or to use it elsewhere… To do it, just save the following two files and you are safe: ~/evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db and ~/evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db.summary