Re: [Evolution] Logging out of GNOME while Evolution is still open??

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:53 -0700, Evolution List wrote:
> > > Given that Evolution apparently has no SM capabilities then am I taking
> > > a risk to leave Evolution open when logging out in terms of potentially
> > > corrupting my email or should I first quit Evolution then log out?  
> > >
> > > Is there a definitive answer on this?  
> >
> > You'll lose *part* of any open, unsent email, but, if you use
> > Maildir (directly or via IMAP), you won't (can't?) lose anything.
> > wu-imap (which uses mbox) might protect you also.
>
> Thanks for the additional input ya all :).  

Are Canadians allowed to say "ya all"?  Aren't you only allowed
to say, "hozers, eh"?

> You know I have been trying and trying and trying to find information on
> how to get Evolution to store and otherwise process Emails in Maildir
> format vs it's default mbox format and have not been able to find
> anything.  
>
> Does anyone know how to get Evolution to use Maildir? 

Tools->Settings->"Mail Accounts"->Add

One of the server types is Maildir.

> Speaking of not loosing anything through the use of Maildir I am not
> sure that's entirely accurate by the way :).  I was using Maildir under
> KMail for over a year until it corrupted hundreds of my emails through a
> bug it had that corrupted the indexes.  

I don't see how corrupted indexes could mangle the emails.  With
Evo, shut it down, delete the indexes and restart.  Evo should
then rebuild the indexes.  I bet the same is true with KMail.

That's yet another horrible thing about Outlook: one tiny bit
of corruption, and all your emails in all your folders, are poof.

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