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

[Chris <racerx makeworld com>]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:45:52 +0800
Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com> wrote:

> 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.

I'll admit - I never bothered with procmail (admittedly, seems
overwhelming to me (alright - there, I said it!))

Fetchmail I have used a good bit ago and don't recall much about it.

While I'm not necessarily afraid to try new things, I could give this a
try. That being said - some pointers (or a decent example someplace)
would be appreciated.

Maybe something like fetch-n-proc might be worth the imagined headache
(naive point of view here) of setting it up. Perhaps I'll give it a
shot.

Thanks again folks.

-- 
Best regards,

Chris

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