You dont need any explicit support from evolution to handle this.

i.e. you just manually run a script (at startup? login?) that merges the
mailboxes, before you even start evolution, and similarly when you're
done.

A port would be difficult.


On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 16:10, Matts wrote:
> Many Linux users are Dual booters, they sometime use windows and sometimes Linux. 
>One problem with this is that the mail you have fetched in windows is not available 
>in Linux and vice versa.
> 
> One solution to this is to create a utility that evolution calls upon start and 
>exit. On start to fetch all new items in windows (outlook/outlook express) mailbox 
>and insert them into proper places in evolutions mailbox, and on exit to copy all new 
>items in evolutions mailbox to windows.
> 
> If this is not possible, another solution is to do a windows port of evolution. This 
>would make it possible to have the evolution on the Linux partition to use the 
>mailbox of the evolution on the windows partition and the problem is solved nicely.
> 
> How hard is it to do such port ? I understand thatn Gnome2.0 shall be multi 
>platform. Will that make porting linux programs like evolution easier ?
> There are already ports of gnumeric and the gimp.
> 
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