that's just not right. if you have a pop account in evolution, evolution stores all email from that account in an mbox format. and then you get screwed when that mbox file gets over 2G
On 12/28/05, Erik Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:45 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > > But it gives me a choice of pop OR maildir. I need my messages to be > > downloaded from the POP server then delivered into the maildir. > > Actually any account is (indeed) EITHER pop OR mbox (OR imap, etc.) > > The idea of pop (but stronger with imap) is that the messages are not > downloaded and stored at all, but downloaded when selected to be viewed. > > Now I know that for instance outlook goes completely against this > principle and blindly downloads all messages. > > Afaik evolution won't do that, except if you selected "copy folder > contents for local operation" or (?) if you have created a filter that > needs to have the message body to operate on. > > These messages are then stored into an evolution-specific format which > you cannot select and has nothing to do with mbox or maildir. > > If you want to transfer all of your pop account to a mbox file or > maildir directory, I suggest you use a tool that exactly does that, and > have evolution operate on this file/dir. But I don't think that is > actually what you're looking. > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > > > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
