Use maildir, and set 'check mail every n minutes' option.

On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 08:54, Randy Orrison wrote:
> I'm using exim to deliver mail, with rules in my .forward to send
> messages for a couple mailing lists to the appropriate mbox files:
> 
> if $header_x-beenthere: contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" then
>       save evolution/local/MailingLists/subfolders/evolution/mbox
> endif
> 
> This appears to work fine, but if messages arrive while evolution is
> running, it doesn't update the status in the Folders bar (e.g. the
> unread count).  If I click on the folder in the Folders bar, evolution
> doesn't show the new messages in the message list.  However, when when I
> click into a different folder evolution does then update the status in
> the Folder list, and if I go back to the folder the new messages are
> there.  It would make a lot more sense to me if the state of the folder
> was checked when it was entered instead of when it was left.
> 
> (If I'm doing something totally stupid here, feel free to tell me!  I've
> read in the archives about using IMAP and filtering into its folders,
> but that just doesn't appeal to me; I much prefer to have my email under
> my $home.  Also, I know about Evolution's filters, but I'd rather have
> the email filing for most mailing lists happening while Evolution isn't
> running, since I also occasionally access my mail spool file by other
> methods.)
> 
> Thanks to all the developers for a great program!
> 
> Note that I'm running version 0.99.2, from the package included in
> Debian unstable.
> 
> Randy Orrison
> 
> 
> 
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