As i said earlier, just copy the files across to that directory structure - you don't want to access the stuff directly in ~/evolution, one its fugly, and two, you'll end up with clashes.
After you've copied/moved them, then go to folder subscriptions and subscribe to them. thats whats implictly happening when you create the folder anway.
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 08:23 -0400, 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
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