I'll break with tradition and actually post a solution (to be followed shortly by a related question ;^)...
I was recently forced to keep track of "Local Mail" using older style mbox folders (Pine/Mutt/Elm-friendly mailboxes). In doing so, I encountered a problem that I see is not altogether uncommon, based on what I read in the Evolution list archives. Evolution will mark a folder with bold-face type if it contains unread messages, and display the number of unread messages in that folder to the right. It apparently has no way of "remembering" that that folder had any unread messages if one shuts down Evolution and restarts. One trick is to configure an IMAP server with access to your local directories. Evolution allows you to configure an IMAP account such that it queries the server for any/all new messages upon startup. Since I am no longer able to maintain a local IMAP server, I had to come up with another solution. My work-around was to set up a "virtual folder" that scanned all my local mbox folders for unread messages. This works well enough for me, and in fact has the added advantage of a convenient place to check the total number of new messages in the local directories (perhaps I should point out that the reason I have "new" messages in my local folders is that I have a number of filters that automatically move things from my INBOX to appropriate local folders). My only question is whether or not this "feature" in Evolution (the fact that it can't remember the status of a particular mbox folder) is intentional. That, and does anyone out there have a better solution than the one I just described? Thanks for your attention. -EJR _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
