Re: [Evolution] home mail howto?



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.

-- 
Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>




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