Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 15:02 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I've also noticed with the mail folder on the NFS, evolution takes an
> > age to start, whilst it's almost instant if the folder is on the local
> > machine.
>
> No, don't put the mail folders on NFS.  NFS is horrendously inefficient
> and it will, as you've seen, slow things down. It's to do with file
> locking and that sort of thing, not with the absolute data transfer
> rates.
>
> It's also not a wise thing to do to share the data folders.  Rightly or
> wrongly Evolution assumes that it knows the state of it's own private
> data areas - if another version of Evolution alters that private data
> it could cause problems.  It may appear to work now, but it's not a
> supported configuration so things may break horribly. Evolution just
> isn't designed to work in that configuration.
>
> If you want to share mail between multiple programs, then I seriously
> suggest (very, very, seriously) that you set up an IMAP server and
> point all your mail programs at that. It will save you having to manage
> multiple copies of the data and IMAP is designed to work in that way.

I concur. This is what IMAP is for.

> I presume you are currently using POP to retrieve your mail (otherwise
> why would you even be wanting to share mail over NFS), in that case you
> can use something like 'fetchmail' to retrieve the mail from your
> provider and populate the IMAP folders.

In fact if your mail provider offers IMAP as an option, that is by far
the easiest way to go as you don't need to set up anything after
configuring Evolution with the account info. It also means you can get
to your mail from any IMAP client, including on your phone.

poc