Re: [Evolution] Moving from Claws-Mail (pop/maildir) to Evo

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 00:37 -0500, Chris wrote:
> Thanks everyone. While some didn't understand what I meant (my fault
> for not articulating) others did but gave indirect answers.
>
> The goal (for redundancy and clarity) was to move away from Claws
> (that happens to store my retrieved pop mail in maildir format) to
> Evolution (providing that it did the same, retrieve my pop mail and
> store it in maildir format) without the use of other programs (case in
> point fetchmail, procmail and or what have you).
>
> It's looking more and more like this is not a supported (as far as I
> can tell) feature and may not be a wanted one.
>
> That being said, I do want to thank all that replied. It just seems at
> this point in time, Evolution still is not the app for me to use.
>
> For now, Claws and Sunbird will have to do (mind you, both are great
> products, I would have liked to use the suite that comes with Evo).

I'm unsure why you have the (seemingly artificial) limitation that the
app should not use 'other programs'. One of the biggest advantages of
linux is the usage of targetted applications for each task, in this
case, one application (perhaps fetchmail) handles downloading mail and
the other (evolution) handles the reading of that mail. Evolution can
access a maildir just fine.

Having said that, you know your own requirements. I just wished to point
out that the requirement 'without the use of other programs' is
artificial and pointless in my opinion.