Re: [Evolution] Too many inboxes, drafts, etc...

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> I have /var/mail exported over NFS to sun workstations that will be
> running dtmail, and Linux workstations that will be running evolution.
>
> Essentially the /var/mail/username spool needs to be treated as a shared
> mail box. I have evolution configured to use /var/mail/spool/username as
> a unix mail spool.
>
> I am having is two problems:
>
> 1. I made .evolution/mail/local a soft link to ../../Mail where dtmail
> keeps it's mbox mailboxes. I need a way to make evolution use the same
> folders ('drafts', 'sent.mail', etc...) that dtmail uses. I need
> evolution to be able to use drafts instead of Drafts and sent.mail
> instead of Sent. How can I achieve this?
>
> 2. Having the main /var/mail account with its own inbox, junk, and trash
> folders gets confused by the fact that "On this computer" contains
> another inbox, another trash, another junk folder, etc... How can I get
> this to appear as one account, or at least get rid of duplicate folders
> that don't need to be in "On this computer".

To be honest, by far the easiest way is to move to IMAP.  Mail spools on
NFS is not a good thing - there are lots of locking issues and there is
a real chance of corruption.

I know it's a pain moving everything to IMAP - I've just done it! But
dtmail can use IMAP and you can change which IMAP folder Evo uses for
Sent/Drafts.  And at least with IMAP everything is kept in sync!

Pete

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