On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:17 +0530, Not Zed wrote: > > > uhhh.... for pop3 and "Local Delivery", this is where all mail gets > > > delivered by default (unless you setup filters to move it elsewhere) > > > > OK since no one seems to believe me on this I've taken some screenshots > > http://fommil.homeunix.org/~mick/evo/ I realise that I could easily have > > changed the text before taking the screen grab but I hope that you will > > take me on my word or at least follow what I've done and get the same > > result > > Well, that is the name of the account yes. "On this computer" isn't > an account, it is just mail which has been downloaded to the local > machine.
OK I should have added another screenshot with the new top level folder that is created when I add a "Local Delivery" account. > You are setting up a pop account. Pop is an acronym for "post office > protocol", it is just a drop-point, mail is downloaded from there and > copied locally for your client to access. If you have multiple pop > accounts, they all get downloaded to the same location - "Inbox" in > "On this computer" in the evolution case. No I'm not, I'm trying to see my local mail (stored in /var/mail) in the folder "On this computer". And so far all I'm able to do is create a new top level folder with has the same name as my e-mail address and have "On the computer" doing nothing. > > >> Indeed that's why I said "(virtual?) folder". But, because the folder is > > >> virtual it seems to me to be wasteful of evolution to create this folder > > >> when I have told it not to check for spam. Moreover if I actually have a > > >> real Junk folder it is hidden by evolutions virtual folder. > > >> > > > > > > wasteful how? if you don't open it, there's no added processing. > > > > I never knew that it never updated virtual folders till you clicked on > > them, how does it know that there is new spam if it doesn't check each > > file in the rest of the folders until you click the trash folder? > > Well, trash has nothing to do with spam anyway, that is the junk > folder :). Oops s/trash/junk/ -- OoberMick "The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains." -- Abu'l-`Ala' al-Ma`arri, d. 1057, poet of Ma`arra _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
