Re: [Evolution] Help me understand something please

[Jaroslaw Rafa <raj rafa eu org>]

Dnia 29.06.2022 o godz. 15:20:07 Tim McConnell via evolution-list pisze:
> ls -la /var/spool/mail/../mail
> total 8
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root  mail 4096 Jun 29 13:18 .
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root  root 4096 May 19 18:51 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  mail    0 Jun 24 12:43 root
> -rw-rw----  1 tmick mail    0 Jun 29 10:21 tmick
>
> ls -la /var/mail
> total 8
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root  mail 4096 Jun 29 11:43 .
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root  root 4096 May 19 18:51 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  mail    0 Jun 24 12:43 root
> -rw-rw----  1 tmick mail    0 Jun 29 10:21 tmick

So there are two empty mbox mailboxes, one for user "root" and the other for
user "tmick". That seems correct - Evolution has moved all mail to its "On
this computer" storage.
Also it seems that /var/spool/mail and /var/mail are the same directory, ie.
one is probably a symbolic link to the other.

> > Then recreate your "localhost" account and wait for new mail. Check
> > if the problem appears.
> Okay just to be sure I use the correct option, should it be maildir or
> spool? I don't have any other programs other than Exim for mail
> installed and it's there by default. 

Your previous setting was mbox, ie. "Local delivery". You can keep that, or
you can set it to spool, ie. direct use of the system mbox. It's your
choice. You can try which one will work better for you.

While mbox works as I already described, ie. moves mail from /var/mail/tmick
to "On this computer", spool will keep mail in /var/mail/tmick, so it is
possible to read it via other programs as well.

You cannot use maildir, as your Exim does not store mail in Maildir format.
Evolution uses maildir for its internal storage, but that's a different
thing.
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   Jaroslaw Rafa
   raj rafa eu org
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