Re: [Evolution] Evo 2.0 + MailDir format

[Evolution List <carlos gonzalez shaw ca>]

Hi Not, 

> > I mean how does one work with emails in Maildir format through Evolution
> > in a practical sense? 
>
> Umm, you just click on them?  It is almost entirely exactly like imap.
>
> If you want to get pop mail, then you setup a pop mail account.  If
> you want all your mail to go into the maildir folders, then you setup
> a filter to move them there.  There are no giant leaps of logic
> involved here.

Call me dense but I just don't get it.  

I create an account through the Tools -> Settings dialog right?   Let's
say I call it My Account or some such.  Within that account I go to the
Receiving Mail tab and select "Maildir-format mail directories" and then
enter a path to the directory I want to use.  

All well and good.  But I still have no clue as to what I did setting up
this account.  I mean it can't retrieve any email not being a POP
account.  It can't rightly do anything as far as I can tell.  

Nothing has changed in the Evolution GUI to indicate that this account
is saving emails in a Maildir format directory or even where this
directory is at.  In other words this directory does not show up in the
left hand folder pane at all.  

If I retrieve emails like normal through another account that is set up
as a POP account and they go into my inbox, then where does the My
Account show up on the folder pane so as to be able to drag emails into
it?  

You say to create a filter.  Again all well and good but where in the
filter creation dialog can I tell Evolution to file emails into the My
Account folder.  It doesn't even show up in the Move To this or that
folder liist made avaible to me within the filter.  

So again I am stumped and have no clue as to how to work with a Maildir?
Or even how to work with a new My Account that I set up to be a Maildir.
I mean I can create the account just fine but I am clueless as to what
to do with it once I create it or how I can move emails into it.  

Any further insight you  or anyone else might like to share with me?  

Thanks.  

Carlos