Re: [Evolution] Local store for IMAP accounts

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 14:42, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have noticed that Evolution doesn't provide a local store to cache
> messages from IMAP accounts so in the case the mail server is
> unavailable, the user can still work off-line.

sure it does, look in ~/evolution/mail/imap/<account> and you will see a
cache.

> Usually, my company's IMAP server ISDN connection goes down. Evolution
> complains about this at startup, but doesn't allow me to see any cached
> message. Other e-mail suites like Mozilla's Mail and Microsoft Outlook
> keep a copy of the IMAP messages (normally all the headers and the
> bodies of messages marked for download) so in the case that the IMAP
> server is off-line, the user can still delete and read messages that are
> cached locally.

You can do this with evolution as well, although there isn't a whole lot
of control.

> Is this feature available in Evolution (I haven't find a way to do so)?

File->Work Offline?

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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