Hello, all! I am using Evolution 3.18.5.2 on Ubuntu Xenial Desktop. I just set up a new Ubuntu Artful server, following mostly the instructions on https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/ubuntu-perfect-serv er-with-apache-php-myqsl-pureftpd-bind-postfix-doveot-and-ispconfig/ . I set up the server to use Postfix and Dovecot with Maildir/ support. Currently, the server is behind the firewall with no firewall exceptions forwarding to it on my home LAN, but I plan on moving it into a DMZ part of my home LAN (Sorry if TMI). I set up the email server on my new Artful server and tested it by telnet'ing to port 25 and sending an email and sending an email to the server from Evolution on my desktop machine using the Postfix+Dovecot with Maildir/ email server on my desktop machine; both of those worked fine. I then tried to add an email account for the server's email server account on my Xenial desktop machine using IMAP on Evolution. Everything went fine until I tried to enter the password. I then realized the mail directories weren't set up on the server, (and, here is my first mistake,) so I installed Mutt on the server WITHOUT ALTERING ITS CONFIG FILE TO USE MAILDIR/. I ran Mutt, and it created the mail/ directories (Whoops). Then I re-added the server's email account to Evolution, and everything seemed to work fine, except my emails weren't showing up. I then realized I had run Mutt without configuring it to use Maildir/. I configured Mutt to use Maildir/, manually added the Maildir/ directories to my home directory on the server (as well as to the skeleton account used to set up new accounts on the server), deleted the mail/ directory from my home account on the server, and verified that Mutt was reading the Maildir/'s mail and Dovecot was functioning properly with Maildir/. But, now, whenever I go to re-add the server's email account to Evolution on my desktop machine, Evolution keeps re-creating the mail/ directories on the server and trying to read the IMAP mail/ directories instead of (what I want) reading the Maildir/ directories on the server. Evidently, even though I deleted the server's account on Evolution on my desktop machine, some vestiges of it remain in Evolution's files, and it keeps trying to read the server's IMAP email as mail/ not Maildir/. Can someone help me to get rid of the vestiges of the server's email account on Evolution on my desktop server, or otherwise make it so Evolution will use the Maildir/ folders on my server? I would like to get this working before I move the server to the DMZ, migrate my old emails from the desktop machine to the server, and turn off the email server on my desktop (which is the reason I bought the server). Many thanks in advance. Sincerely, -- Jeffrey Rolland <jrolland194 gmail com> "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit; crime does NOT pay! The Shadow knows!" - The Shadow, _The Shadow_ (1994) -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GM d-- s:+ a+ C++>$ UL+>$ P? L+++>+++++$ E--- W+++>$ N+++>+++$ o? K--? !w--- !O---- !M- !V-- PS++ PE- Y? PGP+++ t+++ 5? X+ R+>$ tv++ !b DI+++>+++++ !D G+ e++++$ h+ r-- y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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