[SC.LUG] Email Clients

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:58:13AM +0100, David Holden wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Simon Ward wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:36:13PM +0100, David Holden wrote:
> > > I've used kontact/kmail for several year now and much prefer it to
> > > evolution. Not least because it does not use a non standard mail folder
> > > format, i.e. put an mbox file in your Mail directory and it will display
> > > it as a folder in your client.
> >
> > That’s always nice. Evolution reads local mbox files to, and I liked
> > that. It meant I could easily use procmail filters, and also use
> > whichever of the local mailbox supporting MUAo took my fancy at the
> > time.
> 
> Interesting, is this a recent feature of evolution. One of the main benefits 

I think it has had the feature for quite a while. I don’t use Evolution
any more, but a quick check reveals the option is still there, in fact,
several; in the startup wizard I got:

    Server Type:
        ...
        MH-format mail directories
        Maildir-format mail directories
        Standard Unix mbox spool or directory

Selecting the configuration path required me to select a file to
continue even though I had chosen Maildir-format, which seems like a
bug. Anyhow, though I didn’t try hard, I couldn’t get it working with my
Maildirs (version 2.10.3, Debian Unstable). The last time I used
Evolution was 1.something.

I used to have Evolution read local mail though, honest!

> to us using kmail is that we can put a soft link in a users local ~/Mail 
> folder to various mbox files we keep around the system and it appears as a 
> folder in kmail can this also be done with evolution? I though because it 
> used its own mail database format this would not have been possible?

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.
    — John Gaule
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