Re: [Evolution] IMAP mail location pointing to the evolution folder

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

> > that's all. Procmail doesn't enter into it (unless you're already
> using
> > it of course, but note that it's been unsupported for many years).


+1. It is important to note that procmail is obsolete, you should get rid of it if you can.

> > I think I need to explain my current setup.
> My emails are received by sendmail which hands it over to procmail
> which
> writes it into an mbox. I then configured Evolution for 'Local
> Delivery'
> i.e. it reads the mbox and write it 'into folders managed by
> Evolution'. So
> something like this:
> Sendmail ---> Procmail --->(mbox)<---- Evolution--->(Evol Folders in
> maildir format)
> If I were to change to IMAP it would become like this:
> Sendmail---> Procmail-->(maidir)<-----via IMAP----- Evolution


I don't think so.  Most (every?) Modern IMAP server provides a delivery agent and handles receipt [LMTP = 
local mail transport protocol].  There is no reason for the MTA to diddle in the mail-store, that is nothing 
but a potential source of problems.  Whatever structure the IMAP server uses itself should not matter, don't 
diddle.


> So are you saying that filters in Evolution can move emails to IMAP
> subfolders?

Yes.

> So procmail just need to write them to the main Inbox?

Get rid of procmail, regardless of what you do.


-- 
Adam Tauno Williams