Re: [Evolution] configuration question for coexisting with procmail

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 09:58, Chris Ricker wrote:
> Sorry if you see this twice.  I've sent it before, but a (mis-)configuration 
> at ximian keeps eating it.
>
> I'm trying to set up evolution (1.0.1) for a few users on a system and can't 
> figure out a sane way to do it.
>
> Here's the scenario.  The system uses procmail for local mail delivery.  
> All mail, by default, goes to /home/$user/Mail/Inbox.  Most users have
> ~/.procmailrc configured to sort mail to lots of other files in
> /home/$user/Mail (eg, in addition to /home/$user/Mail/Inbox, there's also
> /home/$user/Mail/evolution, /home/$user/Mail/postfix, and so forth) as well.
>
> I can't figure out how to tell evolution to read in all the files in
> /home/$user/Mail as mailboxes.  

This feature is in the works for version 1.2

> The best I've come up with so far is
> manually creating a separate account for every single file under
> /home/$user/Mail, which is too ugly a solution to accept (some people have
> dozens to hundreds of separate mailboxes under ~/Mail).
>
> Any suggestions?

In the meanwhile, you might try setting up procmail to filter mail into
Maildir format. You can point Evolution 1.0 to a Maildir tree and it'll
find all the subfolders without the need to make a new account for each
folder.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com