Re: [Evolution] home mail howto?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 20:04 -0400, Tom Cooper wrote:
> OK.  I think I get how to configure evolution to write sent mail to the
> 'sent' folder on the imap server, but I'm unclear how to set up the imap
> server to:
> a) allow writes, and 
Well presumably it should already?  Unless its been specifically configured not to.
> b) read the data that is currently in the ~username/evolution/INBOX/mbox
> file (and other mbox files as well)
Depends a bit on the server.  For uw-imapd, you can just copy the mbox files to named files in ~/mail, and/or then you subscribe to the folders using your client.  If the server uses maildir you may need to do something different (i.e. convert the mailboxes).

With uw-imapd folders can either only have messages or only have other folders, since they're mbox files with directory separators.

Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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