Re: [Evolution] configuration question for coexisting with procmail

[Chris Ricker <kaboom gatech edu>]

On 23 Jan 2002, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> > 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

Okay, good to know that I just wasn't able to figure it out.

> > 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.

That's not an option because of some of the other software used for mail on 
this system.

I guess I'll just not make evolution available for users until 1.2 drops.

thanks,
chris