Re: [Evolution] Evo playing nice with other MUAs?

[Don Duck Harper <duck duckland org>]

IMAP and/or SIMAP are you friends. :)  Even on my local network, I use
it.

Don

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:27:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote to To Dan Berger:
:-) It already supports Maildir. How do other mail clients do heirarchial
:-) folder structures? I assume this is what you mean by saying that
:-) Evolution's file system isn't compatable with other mailers. Btw,
:-) Evolution by default uses standard mbox which is readable by any unix
:-) mailer.
:-) 
:-) Jeff
:-) 
:-) On 13 Feb 2001 14:00:18 -0800, Dan Berger wrote:
:-) > I'll volunteer that I haven't looked at Evolution in at least one
:-) > snapshot - primarily because I've been looking at pre-releases of
:-) > Nautilus, and the two don't play nicely (they aren't yet tracking
:-) > compatible releases of oaf, for one).
:-) > 
:-) > Is anyone at Ximian considering that the current Evolution file
:-) > structure for mailboxes makes it very difficult to swap out MUAs.
:-) > 
:-) > For example, as I type this I'm 3000 miles away from my machine -
:-) > accessing it via SSH.  I'm using mutt at the moment, but when I get
:-) > back to the console I could use Balsa without any complications.
:-) > 
:-) > Last time I looked at Evo this wasn't possible.  I tried setting up
:-) > the Evo mail hierarchy as a bunch of hard/sym links - but it didn't
:-) > work.  I don't want to over-react, but it seems that Evo should do
:-) > everything it can to play friendly - to do otherwise is very, well,
:-) > Microsoft.
:-) > 
:-) > Also - does Evo (or will it) understand Maildir format mailboxes?
:-) > 
:-) > -- 
:-) >    Dan Berger [dberger ix netcom com]
:-) >    http://home.ix.netcom.com/~dberger
:-) >    Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
:-) > 
:-) >    "If you can't explain it to an 8-year-old, you don't understand it"
:-) >                                       --Albert Einstein
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Don Harper, RHCE, MCSE                          email: duck duckland org
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