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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 21:44 -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 09:26 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 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. [...]
>
> > Whats your mail setting?
>
> I guess I should read a FAQ or something. I'm not sure what a "mail
> setting" is. I've got a single spool account, with the path pointing to
> my $HOME/Mail directory (the same as Mutt and I think pine and elm use).
> I've also got some identity accounts with no mail receipt.
that sounds like a mail setting to me ...
> > 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.
>
> OK. I'll try and do some more testing and see if I can come up with more
> detailed bug reports for Bugzilla.
I just wrote a patch, the code suffered some bit-rot and breakage after some other changes and obviously hadn't been tested for a while.  Quite embarassing really, should've noticed it break.

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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