Embedded images in Evolution sent messages

As far as I can tell there is just no way to get this working. I searched and searched and pulled my hair out. No dice. My messages just would not include the image.

This seems trial, but my work email stationery has logo in, and so it was important.

In the meantime, I've moved to Thunderbird.

Setting up Evolution to query your Open LDAP server

This shouldn't really be very tricky, but if you're getting errors or no results, then it's probably because Evolution seems to require that you close it and restart before it commits the LDAP settings.

So, go to contacts. Right click in the left pane. Click "New Address Book" and choose LDAP. Enter your server details and login. the click on the "Details" and enter the search base. If the part of the tree you're querying lower in than the high level search base, ensure you choose "Sub" for search scope.

Click OK, exit Evolution and open it up again. It should prompt you for your password and start searching.

if you want autocompletion, then go to preferences and choose the new LDAP entry to be enabled for autocompletion.

Installing an HP 2840 All-In-One Colour Laserjet in Debian

The HPLip toolbox is a great app - it's one of those GUIs you expect to see in Windows and are surprised top find in Linux. It is a central place for management of HP printers, scanners, multi-function devices and all-in-ones. You can print, scan, fax and copy from there.

Installing the HP AIO 2840 colour laserjet requires loading additional PPD libraries from your package manager however.

The HP_Color_LaserJet_2800.ppd.gz file is in the linuxprinting.org-ppds package.

Once you've used something like the Synaptic package manager or Aptitude to install that, open HPLip, either detect or give it the IP address on the 2840, and it should bring up the correct ppd file.

Getting eGroupware PEAR errors?

This had me foxed for a while.

My eGroupware Version 1.3.015 install recognised PEAR and installed without a hitch.

However on using the application, errors state that PEAR cannot be located in the include path "include_path='/usr/share/egroupware/egw-pear:.'"

This had me baffled as this path was completely different to that stated in my php.ini file.

Then I found this on the Debian mailing lists:

Edit your apache site configuration file for eGroupware (must be
under /etc/apache2/sites-availaible/) and under the
section, add the line 'php_value include_path .:/usr/share/php/'

Bingo.