Re: [Evolution] help with IMAP

["James D. Ivey" <james iveylaw com>]

I'm a bit reluctant to respond since I'm definitely not an expert.  But I do access my IMAP mail using evolution and it works great.

First, what version are you running?  I'm running 1.2.2 on one machine and 1.0.8 on another.

Second, you didn't say whether you told evo that the server was an IMAP server.  I assume that, under mail settings, you set the server type to "IMAP."  

I honestly don't remember doing much else to get it to work.  Don't look in your Inbox for your IMAP messages; they won't be there.  There's a top-level folder (same level as "Local Folders") that has the name of your IMAP account.  Under that should be all your IMAP folders as subfolders.  In the mail settings are a few switches specific to IMAP folders -- show only subscribed folders, check for mail in all folders, apply filters to INBOX on this server, etc.  Maybe you need to tell evo to check mail in all folders.

I hope this isn't too basic, but like I said, that's about all I did and it worked.  I wish I could remember if I did anything else.  If I can help by checking this or that setting, let me know.

Incidentally, this is on evo1.2.2.  I did it on evo1.0.8 as well.  

Regards,

Jim


On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 18:02, Jack Veenstra wrote:
> I'm a reasonbly experienced programmer and I've read all the FAQs and
> information I could find on the Web, but I can't get Evolution to work
> with IMAP.
>
> I can access my mail using IMAP with "pine" (a mail reader from the
> University of Washington).  The "fetchmail" command also works with
> IMAP.  But I can't get Evolution to work.  I specified the server
> (po.sandcraft.com) and my user name (veenstra) and when it asks for
> my password, I type that in.  But Evolution does not read the mail.
>
> As it happens, I can also access my mail file directly over NFS because
> the filesystem that the mail is written to (on the mail server) can be
> automounted onto my machine.  I can get Evolution to read my mail
> by specifying "Local delivery" and giving the pathname to the mail
> file.  But for my own reasons I would like to use IMAP and I can't get
> that to work.
>
> I've read the FAQ that says to exit evolution and run "killev" after
> changing the settings.  I did that and it still does not work.
>
> How do I debug what is going on?

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