Re: Evolution and Procmail- can they work together?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On 13 Aug 2001 11:00:37 +0200, christophe barbé wrote:
> You are going to discover that even if evolution uses mbox (you can choose
> the format), procmail is not well supported.
> Evolution will not noticed new mails. Evolution will rescan each mailbox
> touched by procmail at each startup and this can take a long time.
> 
> Christophe

What you really want to do is filter into an mbox and have Evolution
import it. *Or*, you could tell evolution to use these filtered mbox
files as "spool"'s and use them that way.

The reason you can't just dump mail into Evolution's folders is because
it keeps a summary of them and if you append to the mbox without
updating the summary files, then they get out of sync. Not to mention
Evolution uses file locking, I'm not sure whether or not procmail does?

Jeff

> 
> Le ven, 10 aoû 2001 21:37:26, Pollywog a écrit :
> > Nevermind, I think I figured it out.  It's just the usual mbox format
> > though this was not obvious to me at first.
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > --
> > Andrew
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 03:09:05 +0000
> > Pollywog <croak shadypond com> wrote:
> > 
> > > If this has been asked and answered before, just tell me where to RTFM.
> >  :)
> > > 
> > > Can Procmail deliver mail to folders so that Evolution can read them?
> > > This seems to be tougher with some mailers than with others.  I am
> > using Sylpheed at the moment and I had to read the Procmail manpages
> > several times before I found a way to get Procmail to deliver to
> > Sylpheed's folders.
> > > 
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > 
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