Re: [Evolution] Re: Re: Re: New evolution user questions

[Michael Graham <oobermick gmail com>]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:17 +0530, Not Zed wrote: 
> > > uhhh.... for pop3 and "Local Delivery", this is where all mail gets
> > > delivered by default (unless you setup filters to move it elsewhere)
> >  
> > OK since no one seems to believe me on this I've taken some screenshots
> > http://fommil.homeunix.org/~mick/evo/ I realise that I could easily have
> > changed the text before taking the screen grab but I hope that you will
> > take me on my word or at least follow what I've done and get the same
> > result
>
> Well, that is the name of the account yes.  "On this computer" isn't
> an account, it is just mail which has been downloaded to the local
> machine.

OK I should have added another screenshot with the new top level folder
that is created when I add a "Local Delivery" account.

> You are setting up a pop account.  Pop is an acronym for "post office
> protocol", it is just a drop-point, mail is downloaded from there and
> copied locally for your client to access.  If you have multiple pop
> accounts, they all get downloaded to the same location - "Inbox" in
> "On this computer" in the evolution case.

No I'm not, I'm trying to see my local mail (stored in /var/mail) in the
folder "On this computer".

And so far all I'm able to do is create a new top level folder with has
the same name as my e-mail address and have "On the computer" doing
nothing.

> > > > Indeed that's why I said "(virtual?) folder". But, because the folder is
> > > > virtual it seems to me to be wasteful of evolution to create this folder
> > > > when I have told it not to check for spam. Moreover if I actually have a
> > > > real Junk folder it is hidden by evolutions virtual folder.
> > >
> > > wasteful how? if you don't open it, there's no added processing.
> >
> > I never knew that it never updated virtual folders till you clicked on
> > them, how does it know that there is new spam if it doesn't check each
> > file in the rest of the folders until you click the trash folder?
>
> Well, trash has nothing to do with spam anyway, that is the junk
> folder :).

Oops s/trash/junk/

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OoberMick
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