Re: [Evolution] Mulitple IDs

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm htt-consult com>]

At 11:13 AM 12/28/2005, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi robert,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 27.12.2005, 14:06 -0500 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
> > Well I answered part of my directories question by doing a lot of
> > INternet searching.
>
> you're posting a question, three persons answer it on the mailing list,
> and now you write that you got the answer by "a lot of internet
> searching"? why are you asking then at all, and why did i waste ten
> minutes on answering your previous mail? hmm.

yours is the first response I saw.  I did more searching after I sent 
the first message to the list and got NOTHING back for quite 
sometime.  I thought perhaps things were down for the holidays.  So I 
got     'creative' in my searching and actually began to get some hits.

> > I see where Evolution places its data in a hidden directory: ~/.evolution
> >
> > Now why it is felt necessary to put all of this stuff in hidden
> > directories is beyond me.
>
> once upon a time (version 1.4) it was in ~/evolution, and everyone
> complained the other way round ("it's too easy to accidentally delete my
> mails").

Since I posted this comment, a lot of Unix stuff I did back in the 
early 90s has been coming back to me, and I realize that this is a 
semantics issue as to what 'hidden' means in different contexts.  I 
am now 'cool' with .foo directories.

> > So it would seem that Evolution is treating each useid as a
> > personality for the logged in user.
>
> ?
>
> > I wonder could I create some other user IDs, grant privileges to my
> > ID and run additonal copies of Evolution pointing to those directories?
> > Or do I somehow have to have multiple simultaneous logins?
>
> i have no idea what you're aiming at, so i can't answer this. check your
> file permissions, i'd say. where should these over copies run?

Reseaching elsewhere, the concensus is that Evolution is NOT what I 
want/need.  Evolution is an Outlook alternative.  Outlook never met 
my requirements, and I would not leave Eudora.

Thunderbird is more along the lines of what I am looking for.  I will 
see though if I can get it to dance.

Evolution looks slick, but not my solution.  Not a replacement for 
all that I do with Eudora that I still cannot do with Outlook.