[Evolution-users] Using Evolution to post(!) to a newsgroup

[Volker Bartheld]

Hi!

----[evolution at bartheld.net, "[Evolution-users] Using Evolution to post(!) to a newsgroup", 20.04.2023, 12:10:35]
VB> Am 2023-04-20 11:42, schrieb Milan Crha via evolution-users:
>> On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 10:00 +0200, Volker Bartheld wrote:
>>> So I tried the process again yesterday. Evolution 3.36.5-0ubuntu1 on
>>> Linux Mint Mate 20 "Ulyssa", if that matters.
>> yes, it definitely matters. The 3.36.5 is ancient, it had been released
>> on 2020-08-07, thus it's almost three years old.

VB> Weird that this outdated version still ships with (rather) current 
VB> versions of Linux Mint Mate. I'm by no means a Linux expert and I'd 
VB> really like to avoid building evolution from a tarball available at 
VB> https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution and rather use binaries via PPA or
VB> a .deb package. However, the instructions on 
VB> https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Flatpak are reasonably clear and 
VB> will probably also work on Linux Mint. Let's keep our fingers crossed 
VB> that the overhead is acceptable.

... later:

Flatpack seems to be already present on my version of Linux Mint. So it
was merely a matter of browsing to https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Evolution
and clicking the "Install" button.

Nice.

But, DUDE! 1.0GB to download, 3.2GB of disk space required. Are we
trying to install a mail client or rather an operating system here?!?
I'm a bit shocked to say the least.

1GB later, I ended up with Evolution 3.48.0 (by Flathub.org) on my
system. Unfortunately, that does not seem to work either. As earlier,
list of usenet groups was successfully retrieved, ditto all the posts
belonging to that group.

No way of creating a new message (post) or replying to an existing
message (post) resulted in a composition window suggesting that the new
message would go to the newsgroup. In fact, the To: field was completely
empty.

Relevant screenshots available at https://bartheld.net/temp/evolution2.zip.

Greets,
Volker