Re: [Evolution] new user impressions

[Karel P Kerezman <rael zero kgon com>]

On 15 Jan 2001 16:14:28 -0700, Brian Grossman wrote:
> I'm a user new to evolution.  Here's my observations of the Mailer after my
> first use (v0.8).  My perspective is that of a long time exmh user.  I hope
> these observations help make evolution even better.
>
> 1. Nice!

That it is, even given everything else that's up in the air. 

> 2. Maildir support for get mail is weird.  When I told it to use
>       /home/brian/Maildir, it insisted on using /home/brian/Maildir/inbox.

What I did was to symlink /home/user/Maildir to /home/user/inbox and Evo
liked it. *shrug* Weird, and hopefully fixed in later releases.

> 23. Thank you for supporting maildir and mh.  Mbox format is just too
>       scary for contemplation.  The horror stories I could tell...

And then you look in your evolution directory to see how they store
messages... everything's an 'mbox' file.

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