Re: [Evolution] Using my mail folders with evolution

[NotZed <notzed ximian com>]

The best solution is:

Have procmail use the 'maildir' folder format, and convert all of your
folders to maildir format.

Then setup a 'maildir' mail source in evolution and point it to the maildir
directory.  It will automagically and transparently share the same folders.

The 'spool' mail source can be used similarly for 'mbox' file format
folders, *however* _currently_ it does not scan multiple folders, it
only works for a single file at a time. (although you could setup
multiple folders this wayt, it is clumsy).  But mbox files have
other issues that make using maildir more attractive in this situation
anyway.


> Hello.
>
> What is the proper way to access mail folders already available
> with evolution, without duplicating them?
>
> My computer is set up to receive mail (using fetchmail) from my
> ISP. The received messages are delivered by procmail. As I
> subscribe to many different mailing lists, procmail is configured
> to use many different mail folder, under ~/Mail. There are more than
> one hundred of them.
>
> I tried to import one mail folder in evolution, and what it has done
> is basicaly a copy of the mail folder under the ~/evolution directory.
> That is not the behaviour I want, as I will continue to use the
> mutt email client, at least for a while.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Romildo
> -- 
> Prof. José Romildo Malaquias               Departamento de Computação
> http://iceb.ufop.br/~romildo       Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
> romildo iceb ufop br                                           Brasil
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