Re: [Evolution] new user problems

[Michael Hunter <mph acm org>]

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 17:17, Not Zed wrote:
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> > 1) I have a large existing MH directory hierarchy.  I use procmail to
> > sort mail into that hierarchy.  How do I get evolution to a) scan
> > the "inbox" part of that hiearchy regularaly and b) to force a scan of a
> > specific directory?
>
> I think doing an expunge on the folder is the most reliable way.

I'd discovered that.  It only works if you have something to expunge.  A
method which was more then just a side effect would be preferable.

> > 2) I don't seem to be able to use subfolders.  I have existing
> > subdirectories which evolution doesn't seem to see.  But even if I
> > create a subfolder from within evolution the next time I restart
> > evolution the subfolder isn't there.  Is there some magic to make this
> > work or is this a bug?
>
> A bug.  It was already reported, i was supposed to look at it last week
> but it skipped my mind.
>
> As a workaround you could try selecting the 'use .folders file' in the
> account receiving options for the mh thing, and then setup the .folders
> file at the top level of the mh tree to include all the (relative) paths
> to the folder directories.  That more or less seems to work around the
> problem for me.

Thank you.  That worked.  I had tried that but with a ".folder" file at
each level of the hierarchy.  Both the spelling and the manner of use
caused evolution to not show anything in the tree.

An amusing aside is that I built the file with "find . -type d
> .folders".  That created a tree in evolution with "." as its root and
everything underneath it.  Not sure that was wrong, but it wasn't what
the user probably intended.

                             mph


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