Re: [Evolution] IMAP functionality

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I'm sure some of this has been addressed before, but I use IMAP as my
> primary mail service, and I thought I'd share a few thoughts...
>
> Obviously, the Local Folders are for things that are stored locally, so
> they shouldn't contain IMAP folders and whatnot, but it would be *very*
> nice if there was more flexibility as to where things were stored by
> default.  Example:

Well, the layout and tree of Folders will change in the next major
release 2.0 anyways.


> I can choose what my Default Mail folder is, even if it is an IMAP
> folder.  This is great.  It would be nice if I could also set other IMAP
> folders as defaults for other folders, like "Sent" and "Drafts".  In
> this way all of my correspondance is stored on one IMAP server, which is
> very nice if you happen to be someone that switches between mail clients
> frequently (I use Evo, pine, and an  http imap client: squirrelmail).

You can change the default folders for Sent Messages and Drafts for any
account. They are not limited to the local folders, so you can set any
IMAP folder as Sent folder:

 Tools / Settings / Mail Accounts / <account> Edit / Defaults

Have in mind though, that Evolution will fall back to the default
folders, if the IMAP server isn't available.

You probably want to have a look at the default folders, too:

 Tools / Settings / Folder Settings / Default Folders


For a even more flexible setup and fine grained Sent folders you can
setup (outgoing) filters to move mails matching the filter to be stored
in any mail folder.

...guenther


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