My preference for Chrome over Firefox and other browsers leaves me to a small but fine feature I've had in Firefox... have Gmail as the default email client in google chrome.This link (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/set-gmail-as-default-mail-client-in-ubuntu/) showed how to do exactly this in ...
I've tried to use many of the open solutions in Ubuntu to handle my email, calendar, tasks etc., but unfortunately given that I'm tied to Outlook, there's no good way to sync all my data from it to any other program. So I ended up getting Crossover and am trying to get Outlook 2003 to work with Gmai ...
I am trying to backup a gmail account. I mean, to bacjup the whole account, not just unread messages.I installed two programs for this from the repositories using synaptic:1. getmail (first, I installed pythn-wxversion dependency)2. fetchmailBoth programs do not show up in the menus and I could not ...
I'm looking for a really good gmail (or imap) notifier for ubuntu (9.10)i tried checkgmail 1.13 and i like it a lot: it allows me to launch evolution when i double click, and has a very nifty pop-up notify that allows me to mark as read, archive, etc without opening up a mail client.the main thing i ...
I can't seem to set up Evolution correctly for Gmail usage. I can send mail with SMTP through Evolution, but when I use Send/Receive to get my mail it comes up with an error in the status bar.Error while Fetching Mail.Failed to read a valid greeting from POP server pop.gmail.comI'm running a clean U ...
Few days ago i started using Gmail, is just way better than others. anyway, the thing is, that the only IM that seemed to work with gmail on ubuntu was pidgin. i managed to add the account (selecting the XMPP thing and bla bla) but i can't chat at all xDI tried to add some hotmail, and gmail contact ...
HiI use ubuntu 8.04, firefox and gmail and am very happy with it. However Im wondering if anyone knows if there is a way in which when I click on an email address in firefox it will direct to a compose mail to that address in a new tab/window without using evolution or any other mail client. ...
I have this problem, I have Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7 installed on my computer.When I try to connect to hotmail in Ubuntu at my home network it never loads (says the connection was reset) but I can load hotmail in other networks using Ubuntu.When I try to connect to gmail in Windows at my university ...
I've spent ages trying to get evolution & Gmail to talk to each other. Whenever I press Send/receive it tries then I get 'Error while Scanning folders in "IMAP server imap.gmail.com" '. I've tried changing the ports etc, deleting the account from evolution and redoing it. I've looked t ...
I'm trying to configure postfix on an ubuntu virtual machine to use gmail as a relay client. For the past two days I have been in and out of the logs, changing parameters and blindly following tutorials but I can't get anything to work properly. So far I've narrowed my problems down to tls connectio ...
I've seen a bunch of other posts on this topic but they haven't solved my problem. I just installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04. Love it so far. Except, I can't figure out how to setup my gmail account in Evolution so that I can see the emails on the server or download them locally. I had it working ...
I'd like to configure Evolution (or Thunderbird) to delete Gmail messages.When I select messages and hit "Delete", the messages go to my local trash and they loose their Inbox label in Gmail.I would like that in Gmail, they loose their Inbox label and go to [Gmail]/Trash so that they'll be ...
anyone else having any issues with gmail/firefox on ubuntu 9.10?On the startup page I'm not seeing the little icons beside the descriptions on the main log in page. Then when I put my username/password in, it just hangs on the progress bar. Using Opera or Chrome everything works fine. It almost appe ...
I recently installed ubuntu 9.10 and have been having problems sending and receiving email in Evolution. I have a gmail acct and I can receive email ok, but can't send. I also have a yahoo acct. and I can't receive or send mail through that. I have only ubuntu on this machine. I've tried messing aro ...
I was using my netbook the yesterday and it's running 9.10 and Thunderbird would not connect to imap. I keep getting the error: could not connect to mail server imap.gmail.com the connection was refusedor connection to server imap.gmail.com timed outSo I decided to connect to it with my desktop comp ...
I just switched back to Ubuntu after a month trying out fedora and openSUSE, neither of which really suited my needs as much as Ubuntu... so i'm back!Whilst using openSUSE i discovered Thunderbird mail client and was very impressed. Loved it.I now return to Ubuntu and find that i am having problems ...
<warning: not very ubuntu-related ;-) >Is there any way to block the links and images from "incredimail"?Setup: firefox and gmail on Ubuntu. A certain person mailing me always has the annoying incredimail 'signature' in their mail. I want to get rid of those signatures.First try: rig ...
I have 2 dual boot systems with XP & a fully updated Ubuntu. I have a FAT32 partition on each system to share files and folders easily with Ubuntu. I keep my Thunderbird and Firefox profiles on these Fat32 partitions so I have the exact same programs/settings/mail in Xp or Ubuntu. I recently cha ...
Just wanted to know if anyone has found a way to search their Gmail from the Ubuntu Deskbar Applet.Previous solutions involved putting my username/password in plain text like so: http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2006/03/20/gmail-deskbar, but I'm not comfortable doing that.I'm using Tracker with the Des ...
forum readers, 1. I want to get a ubuntu cd (not dvd). Where do I go on the web to haveit mailed to me (not an iso download, but a real cd)?2. I have an old PC with redhat 8 and windows dual-boot. I want todestroy and format as ext3 my windows partition (whatever it is -RH8 doesnot know about it,) a ...
I configured the following successfully for sending mail through Gmail's SMTP using this article.http://www.marksanborn.net/linux/send-mail-postfix-through-gmails-smtp-on-a-ubuntu-lts-server/My problem is that it works perfectly when I sent mail via mailx or sendmail, but it fails when I try to add ...
So I set up my blog on Ubuntu hosted at Linode.com. As part of the setup, I followed this guide (http://behindmyscreen.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/31/501615-configuringubuntu-postfix-and-gmail-in-101-easy-steps).I don't really understand what I did, but it seems to work.Now, I just came across this a ...
I use Postfix configured to send through Gmail's smtp relay for all of my email needs on my server. This was configured correctly and working fine till a couple days ago. When I attempt to send emails now, I get the following message:Aug 19 07:50:58 ubuntu-server postfix/qmgr[6840]: 4D88D27C42E: fro ...
One thing which impressed me with Ubuntu/Firefox was its offer to remember my passwords for me; so when I accepted with "yes", I just had to click in my "user name" and the password was remembered.Then, because some user names were typed in wrong, I went "Tools/clear private ...
I was able to send email through Gmail using Nail mail program. But my problems is that I am getting a message saying "Unecpected EOF on Smtp connection...."This is my /etc/nail.rc:#googleset smtp-use-starttlsset smpt=smtp.gmail.comset pop=pop.gmail.comset from="myusername@gmail (slax ...
This might be getting in a bit over my head, considering my Ubuntu experience is limited to about six hours, but I'd like to update the gmail-notifier program to connect securely. I can handle editing the Python, but there are two elementary intermediate steps I'm not sure how to do:1.) Where do I g ...
guys i've been working happily with my firefox in my ubuntu linux gutsy 7.10 32 bits, but today when i accessed my gmail i noticed a huge use of processing power i thought it was something else but closing the gmail tab or switching to the old version fixed the problem, the thing is that i dont wann ...
Firefox (versions 2.0.0.8 and 2.0.0.10) has been encountering an "Unresponsive Script" when I am trying to open messages in Gmail. See the attached screenshot. Clicking continue results in Firefox hanging up, and then needing a force quit. This issue has popped up in the last 3 days.http:/ ...
I recently installed Ubuntu Dapper on a friend's machine (800 Mhz PIII). However, firefox 1.5.0.9 is causing problems in hotmail and gmail. Sometimes when writing a message, firefox starts repeating the last key pressed very fast -- the entire message just fills up as if someone was holding down the ...