Re: [Evolution] home mail howto?

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 17:56 -0400, Tom Cooper wrote:
> I love using evolution, and have been an enthusiastic user for a VERY
> long time.
>
> I'd like to get my network at home set up with an imap server, and use
> evolution as a client against the server.
>
> Of course, since this is my home network, and SMTP is blocked by my ISP,
> I'll need to use their outbound services, and I'm thinking of using
> fetchmail to download from their pop services.
>
> So, the desired outcome looks something like this:
>
> --------
> |ISP   |
> |SMTP  |      SMTP            
> |server|-<--------<--------<-----------<--------|-------|
> --------                   |-------|          |Various|       
>                            |Redhat |          |PC's   |
>                            |Svr    |          |on home|
> --------                   |       |<-------->|LAN    |
> |ISP   |                   |(IMAP) |  IMAP    |-------|
> |POP3  |>-------->--------->-|-------|
> |server|      Fetchmail
> --------
>
> I'd like to be able to send directly to my ISP's mail server, and have
> evolution write the sent mail to the sent folder on the Redhat box at my
> house.  This way my inbox and outbox live on the same DASD and I can
> easily back it all up. 
>
> I've got imapd running on my RH box now, and I can see the spool
> directory, but none of the mail that evolution has moved to
> ~user/evolution

If you're using an IMAP server to store your data. what do
you want in ~user/evolution ?

> Does a howto exist for this, or do I need to figure it out and then
> write one?
>
> If none exists, does anyone know how hard it would be to get to the mbox
> files in the various evolution directories from imap?  The UW imap
> server seems to have sparse docs, unless I'm looking in the wrong
> place....

This is *very* similar to what I do.

We created "Sent" folders in each of our IMAP folders, and told
Evo that the standard destination for Sent mail is 
imapsrvr:/INBOX/Sent.

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Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>