Update on Evolution (Re: [SC.LUG] Email Clients)

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:19:24PM +0100, Simon Ward wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:58:13AM +0100, David Holden wrote:
> > > 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).

Update:

I cheated and manually editted the account configuration (hardly
friendly). I changed the path to /home/simon/Mail, which contains a
hierarchy of directories and Maildir-format directories.  Evolution read
the whole hierarchy.

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