On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 17:56 -0400, Tom Cooper wrote: > I love using evolution, and have been an enthusiastic user for a VERY > long time. > > I'd like to get my network at home set up with an imap server, and use > evolution as a client against the server. > > Of course, since this is my home network, and SMTP is blocked by my ISP, > I'll need to use their outbound services, and I'm thinking of using > fetchmail to download from their pop services. > > So, the desired outcome looks something like this: > > -------- > |ISP | > |SMTP | SMTP > |server|-<--------<--------<-----------<--------|-------| > -------- |-------| |Various| > |Redhat | |PC's | > |Svr | |on home| > -------- | |<-------->|LAN | > |ISP | |(IMAP) | IMAP |-------| > |POP3 |>-------->--------->-|-------| > |server| Fetchmail > -------- > > I'd like to be able to send directly to my ISP's mail server, and have > evolution write the sent mail to the sent folder on the Redhat box at my > house. This way my inbox and outbox live on the same DASD and I can > easily back it all up. > > I've got imapd running on my RH box now, and I can see the spool > directory, but none of the mail that evolution has moved to > ~user/evolution
If you're using an IMAP server to store your data. what do you want in ~user/evolution ? > Does a howto exist for this, or do I need to figure it out and then > write one? > > If none exists, does anyone know how hard it would be to get to the mbox > files in the various evolution directories from imap? The UW imap > server seems to have sparse docs, unless I'm looking in the wrong > place.... This is *very* similar to what I do. We created "Sent" folders in each of our IMAP folders, and told Evo that the standard destination for Sent mail is imapsrvr:/INBOX/Sent. -- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
