Re: [Evolution] Too many inboxes, drafts, etc...

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 10:04 -0500, Brett Anderson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have /var/mail exported over NFS to sun workstations that will be
> running dtmail, and Linux workstations that will be running evolution.
>
> Essentially the /var/mail/username spool needs to be treated as a shared
> mail box. I have evolution configured to use /var/mail/spool/username as
> a unix mail spool.

Because sunos has a busted spool format, this is an unsupported mode of operation (we have bugs about it).  So you may have issues with it.  Sunos takes content-length to be meaninful yet berkeley mailbox doesn't.

> I am having is two problems:
>
> 1. I made .evolution/mail/local a soft link to ../../Mail where dtmail
> keeps it's mbox mailboxes. I need a way to make evolution use the same
> folders ('drafts', 'sent.mail', etc...) that dtmail uses. I need
> evolution to be able to use drafts instead of Drafts and sent.mail
> instead of Sent. How can I achieve this?
Check the mail settings for the account, it is there.
> 2. Having the main /var/mail account with its own inbox, junk, and trash
> folders gets confused by the fact that "On this computer" contains
> another inbox, another trash, another junk folder, etc... How can I get
> this to appear as one account, or at least get rid of duplicate folders
> that don't need to be in "On this computer".
You can't.
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Hacks welcome, though a clean
> solution is preferred.
>
> Thanks,
> Brett
>
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