Interestingly I just set up mac mail to point to the imap server, and it is able to browse the whole $HOMEDIR filesystem.
Can Evolution do that? Do i need to do something with folder subscription to pull this off? On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 08:23, Tom Cooper wrote: > I'm very close to what I want, but it seems like I've needed to jump > through some hoops to make it work. I'm hoping that someone can offer > some evolution assistance... > > Using uw-imap I've noticed that Evolution sees /var/spool/$USER as > INBOX, and that it is possible for Evolution to see mbox files in > $HOMEDIR, but it seems harder than it might need to be. > > I have been using Evolution to retrieve my POP mail, so all of my old > mail is organized on the local filesystem in the 'Evolution' way. I > want to be able to see $HOMEDIR/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox, Sent/mbox, > and Drafts/mbox using imap. > > The technique that I've used to be able to do that is to use Evolution > to create a new folder called $HOMEDIR/Mail, then go to $HOMEDIR from > the shell, delete the newly created Mail file, copy > $HOMEDIR/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox to $HOMEDIR/Mail. > > Once I do that, I can read the files from my old Inbox. I repeat the > process for Drafts and Sent. This works, but it seems like more work > than it ought to be. > > Is there a simpler way to accomplish this? I'd like to have those mbox > files in a subdir under $HOMEDIR, but again, I need to create a folder, > delete the file, create a directory of the folder name, then create > folders in that folder, delete those files, and copy the mbox files. > > Am I working too hard? > > Thanks! > > Tom Cooper > > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 18:50, Not Zed wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 20:04 -0400, Tom Cooper wrote: > > > OK. I think I get how to configure evolution to write sent mail to the > > > 'sent' folder on the imap server, but I'm unclear how to set up the imap > > > server to: > > > a) allow writes, and > > Well presumably it should already? Unless its been specifically > > configured not to. > > > b) read the data that is currently in the ~username/evolution/INBOX/mbox > > > file (and other mbox files as well) > > Depends a bit on the server. For uw-imapd, you can just copy the mbox > > files to named files in ~/mail, and/or then you subscribe to the > > folders using your client. If the server uses maildir you may need to > > do something different (i.e. convert the mailboxes). > > > > With uw-imapd folders can either only have messages or only have other > > folders, since they're mbox files with directory separators. > > > > > > Michael Zucchi > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Ximian Evolution and > > Free Software Developer > > > > > > Novell, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
