Re: [Evolution] IMAP configuration with ~/mail

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

Evolution isn't creating the folders in ~/mail/, that's your IMAP server
trying to do that.

Jeff

On 04 Jan 2001 20:33:27 -0500, Mark Corner wrote:
> I searched through the archives for an answer, but couldn't find one.
>
> I am using IMAP with Evolution 0.8  I have set up my mail preferences for
> a single imap server.
>
> ~/mail/ contains all my mail folders.  My IMAP server and my local machine
> (both Linux) both use NFS to mount my home directory.  Therefore both my
> local machine and the IMAP server can see ~/mail and all the folders.
> Only the IMAP server can see my inbox.
>
> If I try to access one of these mail folders it says:
>
> Error while 'Loading "imap://mcorner mailserver edu/mail/oldmail"':
> IMAP command failed: CREATE failed: Can't create mailbox node
> /home/mcorner/mail/oldmail: File exists
>
> It looks like Evolution is creating local mail files in ~/mail/ on my
> local machine and is running into the mail that is already there.  This
> has always worked fine on pine by specifying something like:
>
> inbox-path={mailserver.edu}inbox
> folder-collections="Mail on mailserver" {mailserver.edu}mail/[]
>
> Has anyone run into this, or is this too strange of a configuration? Also,
> I thought evolution stored the local copies in ~/evolution ? 
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks a lot.
>
> ----                                                                   
> Mark Corner                                      
> mcorner umich edu
>
>
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