Re: [Evolution] home mail howto?

[Tom Cooper <tcooper starpower net>]

you're right about the clashes, and I definitely DON'T want that.

Conceptually i was struggling with the imap server not sharing the
folders.  It was, but because the default evolution behavior us to only
show subscribed folders, I didn't realize that.  After futzing with the
Mac client, I realized that subscriptions would be the way to go, and
now I know how to set it up properly.

Next I'm going to try to tackle adding procmail and spamassassin to the
mix.  If I get this all tuned, I'll write a howto so that others don't
waste time on this list and others trying to figure out something
similar.

Thanks for the help!

Regards,
Tom

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 08:21, Not Zed wrote:
> As i said earlier, just copy the files across to that directory
> structure - you don't want to access the stuff directly in
> ~/evolution, one its fugly, and two, you'll end up with clashes.
>
> After you've copied/moved them, then go to folder subscriptions and
> subscribe to them.  thats whats implictly happening when you create
> the folder anway.
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 08:23 -0400, Tom Cooper wrote: 
> > I'm very close to what I want, but it seems like I've needed to jump
> > through some hoops to make it work.  I'm hoping that someone can offer
> > some evolution assistance...
> >
> > Using uw-imap I've noticed that Evolution sees /var/spool/$USER as
> > INBOX, and that it is possible for Evolution to see mbox files in
> > $HOMEDIR, but it seems harder than it might need to be.
> >
> > I have been using Evolution to retrieve my POP mail, so all of my old
> > mail is organized on the local filesystem in the 'Evolution' way.  I
> > want to be able to see $HOMEDIR/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox, Sent/mbox,
> > and Drafts/mbox using imap.
> >
> > The technique that I've used to be able to do that is to use Evolution
> > to create a new folder called $HOMEDIR/Mail, then go to $HOMEDIR from
> > the shell, delete the newly created Mail file, copy
> > $HOMEDIR/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox to $HOMEDIR/Mail.
> >
> > Once I do that, I can read the files from my old Inbox.  I repeat the
> > process for Drafts and Sent.  This works, but it seems like more work
> > than it ought to be.
> >
> > Is there a simpler way to accomplish this? I'd like to have those mbox
> > files in a subdir under $HOMEDIR, but again, I need to create a folder,
> > delete the file, create a directory of the folder name, then create
> > folders in that folder, delete those files, and copy the mbox files.
> >
> > Am I working too hard?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Tom Cooper
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 18:50, Not Zed wrote:
> > > 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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> Michael Zucchi
> <notzed ximian com>
>
> Ximian Evolution and
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>
>
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