Re: [Evolution] Evolution PST support

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 01:57 +0100, Ángel wrote:
> On 2020-01-04 at 11:41 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I would look at IMAP, which Outlook supports. It's possible to 
> You would "post" a message to an IMAP folder is done just by moving
> the message to that folder.

Yep, IMAP is the correct solution.  And "POST" is really just 'PUT',
nothing complicated about it.

> Using a IMAP server will certainly work and is a proper solution. I
> wonder though if William will be able to get an IMAP server (as there
> seems to be an implicit requisite of using a "dumb" storage folder).
> Maybe he will be able to solve it by running an IMAP server on
> localhost and pointing his MUA there.

If you want multiple-user access there should be a server agent, like
an IMAP server.  That is the correct solution.  Stay out of the files.

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