Re: [Evolution] account mess

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:42 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > A while ago I asked a similar question. Part of it I could solve myself,
> > but now I'm still stuck with the rest.
> > I updated my system (now Ubuntu 7.10) and imported my old mail into
> > Evolution. That worked just fine. However, I had to set up my account
> > again.
> > And now I have 1 account. All my mail is going to the inbox below
> > "meesters". Before the update I had all mailboxes organized under "On
> > This Computer". Also, there are a bunch of default mailboxes under
> > "meesters" named in German. But this is something I didn't ask for (the
> > whole system is in English, I'm only sitting in Germany).
> > To illustrate the problem I attached two small screenshots. 

No screenshots were attached.

> > Is there any way to merge the two main folds again? I don't mind whether
> > the final one will be named "On This Computer" or anything else.
> >
> > Any hint is appreciated.
>
> It sounds like your previous setup used POP and your new one uses IMAP -
> the folders in german under 'meesters' are probably the contents of your
> mail folders on the server - you can unsubscribe from them via Folder ->
> Subscriptions.
>
> It would difficult to merge your imap mail into the pop folders under
> 'On This Computer' - you could probably do it using filters etc. though.

You can drag and drop from IMAP folders to the POP folder (I do it all
the time), so I'm guessing a filter would also work.

poc