Re: evolution recovery
"Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:24:41PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
>>On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+0000), Russell L. Harris wrote:
>>> Can anyone tell me how to proceed?
>>
>>I'm not sure how this question relates to my post, to which it's attached.
>>I don't know what evolution recovery is, and I don't understand what
>>an "Evolution address" would be, as opposed to a "non-Evolution address".
>>I can only suppose that these "messages" you talk about are actually
>>pieces of information stored in some IMS part of evolution. Otherwise
>>you'd just read them from the server with your regular MUA, mutt,
>>rather than worrying about losing them?
>
> David,
>
> By "evolution recovery" I mean restoration of the proper function of
> the Evolution package. Recovery = Repair = Restore Access
>
> I have been led to believe that "message" is the proper term for an
> email communication; the venacular is "email". Logging into my
> account at HostGator shows a few dozen emails awaiting retrieval.
>
> My email has been working without trouble for years. I am getting
> old, and I do not know off the top of my head how to use Mutt to
> retrieve those emails. Of course, those messages are formatted in
> HTML, which is why they were sent to the address which I have been
> accessing with Evolution (that address is
> mailbox@alysonwonderland.org).
>
> I once made a living programming computers, but nowadays my computer
> is an appliance which facilitates the accomplishment of other tasks.
>
> Obviously, my preference is to get Evolution working right, without
> the necessity of spending two or three days reinstalling Debian. And
> if reinstallation is necessary, I am not sure I would choose Evolution
> as my client for HTML mail.
Are you certain that you need a separate MUA for HTML mails?
Many HTML mails are sent together with a plain text version. I use
Emacs via Gnus to read email for several email addresses and have no
problems with HTML - on the contrary. Gnus is able to render some basic
HTML features, such as headline size and attributes such a bold, and a
mouse-over on links show the actual URL. I would not be surprised if
mutt were able to do something similar.
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