Re: [Evolution] Getting Evo to work with Maildir/ format

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 18:25, Robert Krueger wrote:
> Hi,
>   This is my second attempt on this forum to get Evo 1.4 to work with
> mailboxes in the maildir/ format.  I did get a useful suggestion from
> another member, which raised my spirits with something new to try, but
> still nothing works.
>   I absolutely love Evolution, and am trying everything possible to get
> it to work.  I have right-clicked on Inbox/Properties

this just changes the underlying format of the folder from mbox to
Maildir, it doesn't do anything noticeable for the user.

after you change that property, look at ~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox

it will now be a directory with cur, new, tmp dirs under it containing
your mail.

that's all that option does.

> , and set it to
> Maildir/ format.  I also set that format generally under
> Tools/Settings/Mail Accounts/Receiving to Maildir/ format style from the
> original POP style.

huh? that's not a global option to make folders into Maildir format if
that's what you were thinking... that just creates a new account that
reads Maildirs instead of POP.

>   Nothing works, yet if I bring up KMail and point it
> to the same directory, all the messages appear.  I have done nothing
> different in the setup between the two MUA's.

where do you expect them to appear in Evolution? my guess is that you
are just looking in the wrong place.

>    There must be some bug or something not explained, a "trick" perhaps
> that I'm not aware of.   Whatever it is, can someone help me fix this?

create a Maildir account, then do View->Folder Tree and look for a bold
node that has the account name you provided in the account editor.

tada... you have a Maildir tree in your folder tree.

Jeff

> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> Using SuSe 9.0