Re: [Evolution] home mail howto?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

For evolution configuration, just setup your evolution to:
 - access an imap account on the server
 - set the smtp server to your isp's one
 - set the account's 'sent' folder to be the one on the imap server.

The stuff in ~/evolution will never be seen by your imap server, it is private evolution data.

If you want it to show up on your server you're going to have to move the folders so the imap server can see them.


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
>
> 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....
>
> Thanks in advance for assistance!
>
> Regards,
> Tom Cooper
> -- 
> Tom Cooper <tcooper starpower net>
>
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