Re: [Evolution] new user problems

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 03:44, Michael Hunter wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 17:17, Not Zed wrote:
> [...]
> > > 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.

Weird, it should actually always check for new mail too when you do
that.

The mh code is a little under the weather at the moment :-/

> > 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.

Its a bit ugly, but actually at the moment thats how things are done if
you want to access the top-level folder (!).

Thats because it needs to have a path in the ui, and we can't attach the
folder to the 'account name'.  About the only other thing I could think
of was to put everything under an 'Inbox', but that messes up a few
things internally (and i was lazy that day) and is still a bit confusing
to the user.