Ron Thanks so much for your email. You won't believe this but your set up seems to be almost exactly what I have. I even have a remote mail relay that I used just like you. I also use Courier-IMAP in other systems.
It never occurred to me that I could run Courier-IMAP on the same box as I run Evolution. That is beautiful!! I don't know why I thought Evolution client must be on a different machine. Chris On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:46:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 09:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am subscribed to a ton of mailing lists and get a constant > > river of emails coming into my current fetchmail/procmail/mutt > > MAILDIR system. > > > > I want to move to Evolution talking IMAP to my remote mail > > server now. I'd like Evolution to put emails into **same** > > MAILDIR directories as fetchmail/procmail currently does. > > > > The problem is that I don't understand very well why/how > > Evolution puts emails into folders. I cannot just > > "learn as I go" because I may lose emails in the learning > > process!!! > > > > Also, it appeared that Evolution was putting emails into > > //different// non-MAILDIR directories there for a moment. > > > > Because I use email constantly, I need to set up Evolution > > immediately PERFECTLY which is not realistic!?!? > > > > Any advice on a graceful way to ease the transition to > > Evolution would be greatly appreciated. > > I use these, and it works extremely well: > fetchmail > postfix > SpamAssassin > maildrop # nice server-side filtering > Courier-IMAP > > Now, I can use any MUA I want: pine, Evo, Mutt, Sylpheed, webmail, > kmail, Mozilla, etc. > > Even though I use Debian, and this is RH -specific, I found it very > easy to set everything up. > http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/RH90-Postfix-Courier-Maildrop-IMAP/ > > On my box, a cron job fires off fetchmail every 5 minutes, which, > as you know, grabs the email. It passes the mail to postfix, which > filters it thru SA, and then gives it to maildrop, which puts it > into the proper ~/Maildir folder. This is independent of whether > courier-IMAP is running or not. IMAP, though, is how the MUA gets > the mail. > > Note also that I use postfix's relayhost to send mail out to my > ISP's smtp server. Thus, I just have to tell each MUA to SMTP > mail to my own box, which then sends the mail out to the ISP. > Really sweet. > > HTH > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson, LA USA > PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. > > Why won't GWB have the US invade the DPRK? Because the People's > Army has 11-15,000 artillery pieces all within range of Seoul... > -- _______________________________________ Christian Seberino, Ph.D. SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax : (619) 553-6521 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
