Re: [Evolution] Offline IMAP support in Evolution ?

[Steve Hnizdur <evo bluebear eclipse co uk>]

Hi

Thanks for replying.

I'm not sure I agree. Offlineimap populates a maildir structure which
Evo reads. Evo is supposed to support this structure and should do so
(IMHO) as if any MTA or other process had populated it. The . at the top
seems to be a bug in Evo's support for maildir which then limits the use
of offlineimap.

This was the subject of bug 29996 which should have been fixed in 1.2.x.
Developers don't seem at all interested in this though.

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 16:08, HvR wrote:
> i also have the . at the top, and filters and new mail notification
> dont work since it is imapoffline that gets the mail and sticks it in
> the maildir, evolution just scans the dirs and finds new ones but
> since it isnt the actual mail client it doesnt process the incoming
> mail (after all it isnt incoming to evo). maybe the evo developers
> should think about adding this feature?
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 02:01, Steve Hnizdur wrote: 
> > Hi
> >
> > I too use offlineimap but my Evolution 1.2.4 on Redhat 7.3 ( and also
> > 8.0 ) doesn't process the local maildir directory properly. Do you have
> > any problems?
> >
> > The top level directory is shown as . rather than INBOX and filters
> > don't work.
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 23:29, HvR wrote:
> > > try offlineimap http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/offlineimap works
> > > great but(t) a little pain to setup, once it works it does everything
> > > you want.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 10:52, John Locke wrote: 
> > > > On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 05:27, Daryl Manning wrote:
> > > > > I just wanted to check as I don't have a copy of evolution handy, but 
> > > > > one of the bug bears a lot of people here have had with working with 
> > > > > Outlook 2000 is the IMAP offline mode, especially as we have so many 
> > > > > laptop/mobile users.
> > > > Wish I had better news for you, but I don't. Evolution isn't (yet) that
> > > > great for offline IMAP.
> > [snip]