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Why Can't I Log In to Gmail with Geary or Mail?
The security standard Google is talking about is called OAuth. It's a modern technology to authenticate a user. As the Wikipedia article states:
Google supports OAuth 2.0 as the recommended ...
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Why Can't I Log In to Gmail with Geary or Mail?
"Doesn't meet modern security standards" is Google code talk for not an in-house developed application. By default, Google locks out most third party clients from IMAP access, but you can change that ...
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Is there an address book for Geary
According to this newsletter post, contact sync for Geary was planned but never implemented. The original developers of Geary shut down, but the Elementary team has forked Geary and continues to ...
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pantheon-mail horizontal elongation
To fix this issue you need to kill/close pantheon-mail and then run the command
dconf reset -f /org/pantheon/mail/
I believe this is only a temporary solution. If you have Elementary Tweaks ...
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How to remove mail client from Elementary OS Loki 0.4
AppCenter is still in development so it can be buggy. In Terminal, use:
sudo apt purge pantheon-mail
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How to remove account from geary
The simple workaround for this is:
Removing the accounts in ~/.local/share/pantheon-mail
If you have only one account:
Open terminal and run-
rm -rf ~/.local/share/pantheon-mail/*
If you have ...
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Pantheon-mail account configuration dialog doesn't fit in low-res displays
As a workaround, you can move the dialog with Win+mouse drag.
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How can I clear the cached settings for Mail?
Well, you can see the content in the Pantheon Mail folder with:
ls .local/share/pantheon-mail/
You going to see a folder with the names of your e-mail accounts, something like [email protected], ...
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How to get new Geary 0.11 ? Will Freya get the update?
There isn't much info on this yet but I saw where Geary was being downloaded from when I removed and tried updating from the new PPA. Decided to try this and it worked.
I was able to install the ...
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Geary Won't Open
I actually was able to get it to work again, I'll leave my solution here just in case someone else runs into this problem:
right click Geary and click compose new message.
Then open up Terminal and ...
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Geary blurred on HiDPI screen, possible to compile with latest WebKit version?
No need to compile anything: you can just update to a newer libwebkitgtk - then Geary (and other applications like e.g. the WiFi login window) will use that instead of the old one. I think the issue ...
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pantheon-mail horizontal elongation
This is a bug. Please subscribe to its ticket in the bug tracker to receive notifications when the devs need help testing a fix.
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Email alias in Mail?
Yes, Mail supports aliases. Click the gear in the upper-right corner. Accounts > select account > "Additional email addresses..." > add alias. When you go to send or reply to an email, if you ...
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can I add a signature to mail in Elementary OS?
You can select Accounts/Edit account (crayon icon) at the bottom of the dialog. There is a checkbox to set a signature and a textbox to type your signature in:
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Connect more accounts to e-mail client
Yes there is, you can setup multiple mail accounts in Pantheon Mail.
Menu / Accounts (or Ctrl+m) and with + you can add a new account.
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Can't Connect my University email to Geary
It's kind of hard to figure out since I can't replicate the issue, but I'm going to presume that the not SSL part in the description on the website means that you should change the encryption method ...
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Delete individual emails in a thread
Nope, there is no built-in way to do this. I've requested it as a feature here, where I suggest you subscribe as well, in case devs want feedback. If you'd like to request the feature more prominently,...
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Geary Spelling Checker for Foreign Language
There is no way to change the spell checker language on Geary 0.10 (or 0.11).
But that should be available in Geary 0.12 when released.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720335
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Is there an address book for Geary
I agree this would a be a must-have feature for elementary OS, but in the meantime I use Evolution app to manage my email and it has a built-in feature to manage addresses books (due to gnome-contacts,...
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"The type name `Granite.Widgets.Avatar' could not be found" error building pantheon-mail
You're trying to build pantheon-mail with dependencies on libgranite over Freya 0.3.
This library version don't support "Granite.Widgets.Avatar", which it's incluided in libgranite for 0.4. You must ...
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Is it possible to manage spam/junk messages with Geary?
Geary doesn't offer this feature, but both Yahoo and Zoho provide spam filtering on the server side. If these filters aren't catching everything, you can "train" them by dragging spam messages into ...
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Geary crashing when looking through emails
I found a temporary reprieve from this issue by disabling the 'Always show remote images' option in Reading preferences, it was driving me nuts!!
Hope that helps.
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Mail (Geary): doesn't remember password, can't delete emails and can't start it with "--hidden"
You may need to enable "less secure" apps in your Gmail settings. See this answer and Google Accounts Help for more details.
I wouldn't be surprised if a future elementary OS release added Google ...
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How to remove account from geary
Just tried this with the latest Geary, and you have to in effect remove two directories for it to work:
rm -rf ~/.local/share/geary/<account_name>
and
rm -rf ~/.config/geary/<account_name&...
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Geary - can't access my outlook.de account *Connection Error*
Try setting it up with Service:Other (I believe it is), then configure the mail settings manually. I had to do this to get Gmail working on it.
Under Incoming::
Make sure IMAP is selected.
Enter “...
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Stop Geary automatic download images
This feature was implemented in the version of Mail that ships with Loki. The solution is to upgrade to the latest release of elementary OS
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How to embed image in elementary OS Loki Mail email compose?
Unfortunately, embedded images are not a feature of Pantheon Mail (formerly Geary). You can follow the wishlist request in the bug tracker here or post a bounty to encourage a developer to write the ...
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Default email stretches across the screen
Typing dconf reset -f /org/pantheon/mail/ into a terminal worked.
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Change (or disable) spell checker language in Pantheon Mail
In short, there should be. Elementary's Mail is based on Geary, which added support for changing spell check dictionaries in June 2016. The feature does not appear to have been ported to the ...
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