From: Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2025 at 12:57 UTC+11
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Evolution Functionality
Thankyou, I'll check this out. I'm trying to find a mail package that supports sensitivity headers, that will leave the mail on the remote server in a form that thunderbird can still download so that I don't lose them (I might be able to flag them as unread in gmail, but I need to check), so that I can investigate an issue at work where external emails tagged as sensitive don't make the inbox of a shared mailbox in Outlook but they do make the inbox of personal mailboxes, but if I use the Office 365 mail web interface the sensitive emails do make the inbox of the shared mailbox. If I send an email from my personal mailbox to the shared mailbox that I have flagged as sensitive from Outlook (which as far as I can see is specifying the same headers as the program I wrote to send the mail) the mail does make the inbox of the shared mailbox. Because of all this the admins are saying that the mail environment is working correctly therefore they cannot provide any assistance to resolve the issue. I'm also seeing headers provided by an application the organisation is using to "protect" the mail system from external mails, that are saying the mail source has not been specified in the organisations domain as a permitted mail source, but I see those messages in both sensitive and non-sensitive mails that make it to the personal mailboxes, so I'm not sure yet what they mean, and the admins are ignoring those messages, hence I'm trying to send a sensitive mail from home to see what happens with that, which is why I'm looking at Evolution functionality because Thunderbird doesn't support sensitivity options. I've just also tried this from the gmail web interface, where gmail can tag a mail as confidential and specify an expiry date for the mail, where it is saying the recipient cannot forward, copy, print or download the email. regards, SteveOn Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:08 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:Thunderbird running locally on my machine will auto configure the mail servers when I supply the email address for the account I want to define in Thunderbird, so I was querying if Evolution can do the same thing? regards, SteveThere's a variety of ways that can be done with mail clients, I knew of these three: It can make guesses about mail server names based on the domain name of the email address you're setting up. Evolution did not appear to do this when I tried just now. It can poll a well-known address associated with the domain name of the email address, for a config file. I recall Evolution did appear to support this method, I've done it in my own LAN, though it doesn't appear to be working when I've just double-checked now. But I may have mangled something in my network at the moment. It can poll a central configuration service which is populated with data about a plethora of mail services. This is a method that Thunderbird can use (they have their own configuration server, and Evolution will look at it). This is what /they/ say about it: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps(2f)Evolution(2f)Autoconfig.html And this suggests yet another scheme: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps(2f)Evolution(2f)AutoconfigSources.html In a nutshell, I'd say that's a sysadmin for your local computer system dropping a configuration file into the users homespace.
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