So - currently I use fetchmail and procmail to fetch my mail from several POP servers and deliver directly to ~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox - works great - and allows me to use both evo and mutt to read my mail without too many hoops to jump through. The only downsides are (a) to see new messages in Evo I have to expunge my inbox (i.e. evo can't autocheck every n minutes) and (b) I can't use filters. I spent a bit of time this morning experimenting with the various mail delivery options in Evo in an effort to get filters working - and I'm now pretty confused. There are 6 options - 4 if you exclude POP and IMAP: Standard Unix mbox spools Maildir-format mail directories Local Delivery None I'm unclear on a few things: 1. what's the difference between "Standard Unix mbox spools" and "local delivery"? The former says it's for "reading and storing local mail in standard mbox spool files" and the latter says "for retrieving local mail from standard mbox formatted spools." Does that mean that "standard unix mbox spools" doesn't move mail between the selected spool and your inbox? 2. maildir-format mail directories says it's for "storing local mail in maildir directories" - does that mean it does or doesn't move things from the folder specified into your inbox? 3. Why does the "apply filters to messages in INBOX" option vanish from Receiving Options when you select local delivery? I tried a couple things without success: 1. changing procmail to deliver to /var/spool/mail/dberger in mbox format and changing one of my evo accounts to local delivery. I sent (and received) a test message to myself and tried to get evo to snatch it via Send/Receive - the message was never found. 2. changing procmail to deliver to ~/Mail/INBOX in Maildir format and selecting maildir format directories - with the directory pointed at ~/Mail/Inbox. Again, send and receive a test message - but evo never picked it up and moved it to my inbox when I did Send/Receive. Anyone have any ideas, or clarification on how the various mail delivery options are supposed to work? -- Dan Berger [dberger ix netcom com] http://home.ix.netcom.com/~dberger Inter arma silent leges "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v US (1928) A982 E6B1 CB2F 7A49 843A 9297 DA73 4371 1F54 8D0C
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