Re: [Evolution] Looking for info on why all viewed mail from an imap server is also stored in a local file

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 20:42, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> tor, 2003-01-09 kl. 22:07 skrev Jeffrey Stedfast:
>
> > > Is this required/expected behaviour of Evolution? 
> >
> > yes, that is the imap message cache
> >
> > (you are free to rm -rf anything in there if you want, though it'd be
> > better to not rm -f the summary file or evolution will have to do a
> > massive re-FETCH of the message headers again - the other files are safe
> > to delete without any repercussions except that it might take longer to
> > load that message in the viewer the next time you open it since we will
> > have to download it instead of reading from the cache, obviously).
>
> Actually, I'd like to do things the other way around - to be able to
> sync the IMAP files on the server to my notebook, so that they're there
> to read if i disconnect from the network.
>
> Is that possible in one operation? I haven't found such.The IMAP summary
> setting doesn't sync, merely reports.

Yes, in evolution 1.2 you goto settings and select the folders in
'offline folders', and then go offline (the =<||>= icon bottom-left of
the main window), and it will sync those folders unread messages.

And yes, the "cache" is also used as the local store for offline mode.