Hello all,
 
I posted this on bugzilla, but was referred to here (actually, if I would
have known about this list I would have posted it here first.sorry).
 
First, I would like to start off with the fact that I'm more than
willing to write the plugin that I'm requesting; I just wanted to make sure
I'm not redoing some work that others have already done (plus, look for some
advice on where to start).  At the moment, with Exchange, I am able to pull
mail from all my POP accounts into a central mailbox, using Outlook's little
"deliver mail here" config option, where "here" in this case is my exchange
mailbox.
 
Thus, it is actually quite advantageous for me to use POP instead of IMAP,
because I only have one mailbox to keep up with and back up.  Plus, the
email is cleaned off of the pop servers and stuck on my own server, where
it's backed up regularly .  
 
Now, this could be emulated, plugging in an IMAP folder for an exchange
folder.  Basically, one could introduce the same "deliver mail here"
dropdown configuration menu into the configuration for Evolution.  In this
case, a locally configured IMAP folder (or local folder of course) would be
the destination choice.  Outlook's feature actually could be trivially
improved by making a per-POP-account configuration, but whatever.
 
Either way, is this doable through your plugin framework?  I don't know how
abstracted away the imap folders are, but it seems like it should be trivial
just to add a hook into the receive process that copies it to an IMAP folder
instead of the local storage.  I noticed that you can drag and drop emails
from the local storage to IMAP folders, so the framework is there, I just
need to call it, right?  
 
Thanks for your help :).  I'm seriously itching to shedding off the last
thing that is tying me to Windows.
 
-Matt

 

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