Re: [Evolution] Folder and mail formats

[Carlos del Castillo <ccastillo capc qoslabs com>]

Great, that would be wonderful. I think that evolutions should be as open
as possible. Mainly to interact with existing unix applications. And have
open formats so if evolution fails on something some othe application
could read the files and keep on working.


Thank you vey much.


On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Not Zed wrote:

> You have to "import" the mail from pine, but otherwise evolution can use
> the same mailbox format.  This can be as simple as creating a new
> folder, and copying the pine folder into its directory as "mbox", and
> rerunning evolution.
>
> e.g. make a new folder "Pine"
> then cd to ~/evolution/local/Pine
> rm mbox.*
> cp ~/Mail/somepinefolder ./mbox
>
> rerun evolution.
>
> We hope to have a feature by 1.0 that will let you "visit" pine and
> similar folders without having to do this.
>
> On 06 Mar 2001 11:09:35 -0600, Carlos del Castillo wrote:
> > Hello there, I'm new to Evolution. I'm using Redhat 7. I'm testing
> > evolution but I'm wondering if it is possible to read the messages and
> > folders with other client like pine?
> >
> >
> > Well that is all.
> >
> > Thanks