[Gllug] Evolution won't fetch my mail (Help)

[Mike Brodbelt]

* John Hearns <john.hearns at cern.ch> [020806 08:04]:
> On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 02:02, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > 
> > I really dislike Evolution's implicit assumption that you're using local
> > mailboxes. The mailbox status list in the summary pane will only list
> > local folders, making it useless on IMAP setups, they insist on having
> > stuck the Calendar and Contacts under local folders for some bizarre
> > reason, so whenever you click the contacts icon on the side bar, it
> > opens the local folders hierarchy for you. Has anyone managed to figure
> > out a way to tell it there are no local folders, and to please bloody
> > well get rid of them.... Or is this impossible....
> >
> I read you loud and clear, and I agree!
> 
> I have got my remote IMAP Inbox into the summary panel - you just
> drag it across!  (version 1.0.8)

Yes - that bit works, and I've got it set up that way too. However, when
you've got a local mailbox, you can click summary, and on the main page,
Evolution will display the total messages/unread messages figures for
each mailbox you've selected. So, from the summary page, you get a quick
overview of which folders have new mail. That feature however, doesn't
work with IMAP. Considering the increasing popularity of IMAP, it's
really irritating to me that all the GUI mail clients still assume the
presence of local folders. Evolution is more short sighted than I'd
expect in this regard.
 
> By the way, anyone on the list used Ximian Connector?
> There are big moves in these parts to go to Exchange.

Why don't you try and persuade them to go for the Bynari stuff instead.
That way you can have Exchange functionality of a standard IMAP server,
and for all the people who insist on using Lookout as their virus
environment of choice, they can then have full functionality out of it,
without the rest having to suffer with Exchange as the mail server.

Mike.

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