Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.0.0 and a directory of Unix mboxes

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 17:02 -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> So, one of the things I love about Evolution 1.4.x is that it handles
> the Unix mbox format (/var/mail/$LOGNAME), and directories of Unix
> mboxes (like $HOME/Mail), really really well.
>
> That's not the case with 2.0.0, in my experience. When I installed 2.0.0

> from Debian experimental, I got the migration notice, which went great.
> Then, when my main mail window came up, there were a whole bunch of
> files in my $HOME/Mail folder -- lots of .cmeta and .index and .data
> files.
>
> I could probably work around this, except the _next_ time I started
> Evolution, each .cmeta file had a .cmeta.cmeta and .cmeta.index
> and .cmeta.data and so on. The folder was exponentially expanding,
> because Evolution was adding 3 extra files for every file in the dir.
>
> Not only that, but my directories under $HOME/Mail weren't recognized at
> all. $HOME/Mail/from/Mom showed up in the tree view on the left, but
> when I tried to open it, I got a notice that from is not a Unix mailbox.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this just an edge case that wasn't
> tested that much before release?

Whats your mail setting?

I doubt it got much testing, people use maildir or let evolution handle their mail, its only a sub-optimal (i.e. slow) compatability feature.  Although it should still work.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer