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

[David Holden]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Simon Ward wrote:
> 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

Hi Simon,

  thanks for the info. If nothing else a useful hack to know.

 cheers,

   Dave.


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