Re: Evolution doesn't receive messages in Debian 11.
On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 12:09 -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> I just upgraded to Debian 11. I had been using Debian 10. I've used
> Evolution for many years. The version in Debian 11 is 3.48.
>
> I use KDE Plasma version 5.26.90. The KDE Frameworks version is
> 5.102.0.
>
> I get pop-up notes from KDE that evolution has received new messages.
>
> But the messages don't appear in Evolution.
I am using Evolution 3.38.3-1+deb11u1 with Stable, and Evolution
3.46.4-1 with Unstable quite successfully.
> I know it's not a mail
> server problem because I can read the messages in Firefox -- but
> Firefox doesn't have access to my archive, so I can't save anything
> (on
> my own computer). If I were to work out how to get Firefox to save
> them, and if I ever get Evolution working again, the messages won't
> be
> in Evolution's format, and the other Evolution data structures won't
> be
> updated.
>
> There was a note about "messages not appearing in Evolution" many
> years
> ago. It turned out to have been caused by the user's configuration
> mistake. When I looked for that mistake in my configuration (which I
> hadn't touched), I hadn't made it.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions to get it working?
>
> When I installed Debian 11, I didn't destroy Debian 10. I still have
> Debian 10 on a different drive. In attempting to repair an entirely
> different problem, I had done
>
> apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
One of the reasons I prefer aptitude's `safe-upgrade'.
> on the advice of a posting in one of the Debian forums. Now, in
> Debian
> 10, there's a mish-mash of Debian 11 parts. Evolution is version
> 3.46.
> It works, but the user interface is now a mess. Icons are tiny and in
> different places. The body has a black border between itself and the
> window border. The title bar for the composer is entirely different
> from the title bar of any other window -- about three times as thick,
> containing several icons, including the "send" icon.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions to repair it?
I'd try a reinstall of the version that is standard for that Debian
iteration.
How Evolution presents depends very much on if it is on a laptop or
desktop. I have it installed on both, and see none of the things you
are describing. This applies to another version I have installed on
FreeBSD, also. I have a mix of KDE and Gnome apps on an Enlightenment
window manager, so doubt conflict problems between desktop apps. You
will be looking at conflict between versions and desktop, with
unmatched dependencies, I should say.
HTH
Cheers!
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