Re: [Evolution] Help me switch to evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 19:24 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:

> There's a part of the folder tree which should be displaying the folders
> which physically exist on the IMAP server, just like those folders are
> displayed in other IMAP clients. But Evolution displays folders which
> don't actually exist. That's wrong. There's a 'vFolders' tree for
> Evolution to display those things. 

That's reasonable.

> > > My patch gives him the option to turn that off and simply use the IMAP
> > > mark-and-expunge model. It does not implement a physical Trash folder,
> > > but at least it stops _pretending_ to do so.
> >
> > Fair enough.
> >
> > Another point: if you also hide the Junk vFolder, how does the user get
> > to expunge his Junk or mark something as "not Junk"?.
>
> Either create a proper vFolder in the vFolders part of the tree, or just
> don't. The point in turning off the Junk vFolder would mostly be for
> those users who don't _want_ it, because they realise that filtering
> belongs in the MDA not the MUA.

Totally agree (I use SpamAssassin on the server), however Evo currently
has no way of controlling it. AFAIK, neither does any other MUA.

poc