Re: [Evolution] UI issues

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > 1) I have my mail fetched and parsed by external programs, and evolution
> > does not do a good job of noticing when new mail has arrived (and
> > updating my mailbox lists and currently open mailbox). Is there a way to
> > fix this?
>
> The only way is to not use the external programs to update the mailbox.
>
> Depending on how your'e doing this, it may be 'unsafe' anyway.

Just a quick addition:

Depending on your definition of "external programs" the very same
situation works perfectly for me. fetchmail polls multiple POP3 servers
periodically, procmail does a hell of a lot of sorting and
pre-processing, delivering to my local mail store. An IMAP server does
the dirty job of serving [1] Evolution, which checks regularly for new
mail in all folders.

This (the IMAP server part) likely would solve your issues too, as Evo
does get noticed about changes.

A local only IMAP server maybe would be sufficient, although you do have
access [2] to your mails in other circumstances. [3] The default one
shipped by your distro should be fine. HTH


...guenther


[1] pun intended ;)

[2] if you open up some ports, assuming a secure machine

[3] working on different machines, or simply verifying how sucky mail
clients can be.. ;)


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