Hey Phil. This is the nature of MH folders. There indexing isn't very nice when multiple programs are scanning them. I had the same issue. What I ended up doing was using Evo to get the mail and dumping them into new folders. I'm assuming you use fetchmail, procmail, rcvstore to store the mail. I quit using those and can still use the cmdline by resetting Path in .mh_profile to "Path: /home/lance/evolution/local/". Then I set a bash alias for folders to: alias folders='folders -recurse | grep "/mbox"' That way, evo gets the mail, updates the mh index itself so it knows new mail and holds the msg numbers. The order I did was, turn off fetchmail, create new folders and with the folder properties, set them as MH folders, move all the old mh mail into the new folders first. Use packf to export all the MH mail in a folder to a file. Then import (File->Import) the single file to the MH Folder in Evo. You have to do this for each folder you want to save. Once all the old mail is imported, you can set up evo to collect that mail. The only issue I still have is that when I want to use cmdline to view the mail I have to append "/mbox" to the cfolder option. (i.e: scan +folder/mbox 10). I also had to recreate all my procmail recipies as filters in Evo. All in all, I'm happy with the system. Evo is much nicer to use then exmh was, and all my mail is MH still so I am not limited when ssh'ing in. HTH, lance On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:39, Phil Sackinger wrote:
Pardon a newbie question, please. I'm using Evolution 1.2.1 to view some MH folders that I've accumulated over the years and to which I already sort my incoming mail via procmail. Unfortunately, the view of the folder does not refresh to accurately reflect new messages as they get dumped into those folders. Pushing the "Send/Receive" button doesn't help. The views of the MH folders *do* refresh if I exit Evolution and then restart. Any suggestions for how to get Evo to check lots of MH folders for new mail and to update its summaries? TIA. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution ximian com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
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