Re: [Evolution] new mail notification not working?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 01:02, Not Zed wrote: 
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 20:11, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 01:55, Not Zed wrote:
> > > Its not requirred for pop or local delivery, they are by default always
> > > filtered.
> >
> > That's not my experience.  I had my main Inbox set to local delivery and
> > a sym-link from evolution/local/Inbox/mbox to /var/spool/pete (which in
> > turn was an NFS mount from elsewhere).  Filters were never automatically
>
> If you have a symlink like that, then you're not using local delivery,
> you're doing something which you shouldn't be ...

When I first set up evolution there was no 'mbox spool' option, there
was just 'local delivery' or 'imap'. I have a local mailbox, and I
needed to get to it, so it seemed the obvious thing to do.

What is 'Local Delivery' for?


> The way you were doing it is actually completely unsupported, and i'm
> surprised you didn't lose mail or end up with a corrupted mailbox, as
> there is no way for evolution to do proper locking on your spool file.

Is the problem locking it a problem with a symlink to a mail spool or
the fact that the mail spool is on an NFS mounted partition?

> > the top of the Folders list - and AFAICS there is no way to arbitrarily
> > change the order of the things in that list.
>
> Nup, its just sorted alphabetically ...

Except for 'Local Folders' which is always first!

P.


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