Re: [Evolution] a few quick Qs

[Robert Mibus <mibus bigpond com>]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:46:21PM -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> > 2) will evolution notice if mail is added to the mbox (eg. by procmail)
> > behind its back?
>
> DO NOT do that! Evolution does not do any locking of its own files,
> and if you change them while it is running, it may later overwrite
> parts of them with "wrong" data.
>
> What you want to do is to use procmail to filter mail into one mbox,
> and then tell Evolution to fetch mail from that mbox into its own.

the solution i came up with was this:

create a user 'bob' in my normal user's group, w/ just pop access.
make /var/spool/mail/bob group-writeable

put this at the top of my ~/.procmailrc:

:0 Dc:
/var/spool/mail/bob

set evolution to pull mail from 'bob's pop account.

and that works.

mibus
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Robert Mibus <mibus bigpond com>
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