Evolution 1.4.5 (at least) has descriptions of these options in the Evolution Account Editor under the Receiving Mail tab. They are:
Local Delivery: For retrieving (moving) local mail from standard mbox formatted spools into folders managed by Evolution [i.e., under ~/evolution/local/*] Standard Unix mbox spool or directory: For reading and storing local mail in external standard mbox spool files. May also be used to read a tree of Elm, Pine, or Mutt style folders. The first option "empties out" your /var/spool/mail/<user> file periodically, copying those messages to an mbox file under ~/evolution/local. The second option reads and updates /var/spool/mail/<user> directly. There may be other, less subtle, differences between the two as well which I may not be aware of. I've had the experience in the past using the "mbox spool" option where I always had to click on "Send/Receive" to check for new mail, as I could never get Evolution to do it for me under that option. That behavior may have changed by now, but I've long since switched to using the "local delivery" option. -norm On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 14:59, Sean M. Alderman wrote: > With the exception of the function of the send/receive action, what's > the difference between the local delivery and spool file option for > receiving mail? > > There help docs don't seem to cover these options. > -- > Sean M. Alderman > ITRACK Systems Analyst > PACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center > (216) 433-2795 > > Using TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the beach. -- S.C. Johnson > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Norman Joseph, Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] IC|XC Concurrent Technologies Corporation 814/269.2633 --+-- Global Systems Center NI|KA *** Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle *** _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
