Re: [Evolution] Saving Email Messages to Disk Automatically

[Ángel González <angel 16bits net>]

Patrick Huguelet wrote:
> Hey,
>
> So I'm having some trouble saving email message to disk. If I move 
> them to the "On this Computer" folder they appear in the .local 
> folder as text documents but otherwise I cannot access them on disk 
> as far as I can find. I'm trying to construct a process that saves 
> the emails to disk automatically so I can run a program on them at 
> intervals and save the data into a PostgreSQL database. Is there 
> anyway to automatically move the emails from my email address to the 
> computer or a simpler avenue to do what I want?

evolution isn't the best suited tool for that.
If you want to automatically download the contents of a mailbox for
automatically processing them, I would use a program like fetchmail or
mpop (you should configure them to pipe into the script, instead of
using a pre-existing mailbox format like Maildir or mbox).