Re: [Evolution] new mail notification not working?



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





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