There has been an increasing number of problems with the Maildir support in Evolution during late 2008 and early 2009. With the latest release in Fedora 10, it's almost unusable.
To summarize the three most annoying bugs with maildir (yes, these and others have been filed in bugzilla): When you move mail into a maildir folder from an mbox folder, it frequently vanishes because the maildir index isn't updated. If you receive new mail in a maildir folder while Evolution is running, you can't see it even though the folder shows the right count of new emails for the folder. The mail files are actually present in the physical maildir directory, so presumably this is another problem with the maildir index becoming corrupt. Assuming you manage to get some mail into a maildir folder and actually see it, if you decided to delete it, it is only hidden from view. File->empty trash doesn't expunge the file from the disk. This leads to wasted disk space over time. The only way actually delete deleted email that I've found is to go through the maildir folders one at a time and select folder->expunge on each one. But with hundreds of folders, this takes a lot of time. It seems like no one is maintaining maildir support any more. Should maildir users be looking for alternate email program? -Steve _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
