Re: [Evolution] new mail notification not working?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 22:43, Pete Biggs wrote:
> 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?

Its for getting mail from /var*/mail/yourusername

Or from any other temporary mailbox drop file.

> > 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 former.  NFS should work since we use .lock as well as fcntl -
although it really depends on how the server is configured to do
locking.  Nobody seems to agree on it.

> > > 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!

yeah