Re: [Evolution] a few points

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On 13 Jul 2001 19:16:57 -0400, Fred Chagnon wrote:
> | o Can we have documentation on how evolution uses mail folders and how it
> |   interacts with other email programs, please? Watching the list it seems
> |   it's not possible sharing mailboxes between evo and pine, unless using
> |   IMAP. Is this true? I know netscape mail can do it (if summary files
> |   are deleted). Pine is useful as I still need to access my mail from
> |   a ssh connection (W/O X), and there's no text mode client for evo.
> |   (I would write one if I had the time :-) )
> |
> |   It seems a little silly if the mailbox is on the local machine and
> |   imap has to be used to share between mail applications.
>
> This is what I'm waiting for.
>
> I need to be able to use PINE to read my mail if I'm ssh'd into my box, but
> when I'm at my desktop I'd like to use Evolution.
>
> I looked in the FAQ on ximian's site today and question #5 was of this
> nature.
>
> The response....
>
> "No. But it's a planned feature."
>
> Technically Evolution is useless to me unless I can read my mail from my
> mail folders without importing them. Balsa's just not strong enough....

This feature is implemented in the upcoming 0.11 release.

Jeff