Re: [Evolution] Mail merge?
> On Oct 9, 2020, at 8:47 AM, Reid Thompson via evolution-list > wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 13:17 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 2020-10-10 at 00:51 +1300, gnome via evolution-list wrote: >>> Never said Evolution was anything other than an email client, but I've >>> come to expect to see this feature in clients (or at least as a plug >>> in) since I've been using it often for the last 6 or 7 years. >> >> As I said, I for one have never come across this. It definitely is not >> a feature of Evolution, nor of any MUA I'm aware of. Some references to >> MUAs that do support it would be useful. My understanding of this functionality is that it allows users to create a template for a mass mail event where values (such as recipient names and other recipient-dependent data) are substituted from a data source. It is useful functionality; but it is a bit beyond the capabilities of “just” a MUA because it requires knowledge of the data source. BCC could only substitute in the most trivial of use cases. It does seem like the sort of functionality that would be a good candidate for a plug-in. -- Braden McDaniel ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Maildir account not showing messages
On Sat, 2020-07-11 at 11:07 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > I have a Maildir in my home directory that was created and > > maintained > > by Dovecot. I am attempting to use Evolution’s Maildir account > > type > > to show these messages. > > I suspect that that is an unwise arrangement. Dovecot does lots of > things that assume it has full control over the mail store. It may > cause problems in the future if you start altering the contents > outside > of Dovecot. Can you not just use Dovecot as an IMAP server? I can. (I have in the past.) I thought having Evolution use the Maildir folder directly would be more efficient; but I was unaware that Dovecot would not work well with this. > > When I point this account at “~/Maildir”, I see a top-level folder > > called “INBOX” with the many subfolders I would expect. However, > > selecting INBOX or any of its subfolders shows no > > messages. Instead, > > there is a top-level folder called “Inbox”. This has the messages > > I > > would expect to see in “INBOX”; but it has none of the subfolders. > > On > > the filesystem, subfolders beneath “~/Maildir” look like > > “.INBOX.*”. > > The "Inbox" in Maildir *is* the ~/Maildir folder - that's why it > contains the cur, new, tmp directories. Each mail folder that you > see > at the top level translates to a .xxx folder in ~/Maildir, sub > folders > are .xxx.yyy directories. Each directory must contain cur, new and > tmp > subdirectories. Yes, I understand that. (And they do.) > The .INBOX directory you see should translate to the mail folder > INBOX, > that is just any other folder and holds no particular significance in > the Maildir standard. To be clear, there is no ".INBOX" subdirectory. All subdirectories under the Maildir (aside from "new", "cur", and "tmp") are of the form ".INBOX.*" (and these correspond to subfolders under the root Inbox from the IMAP perspective). > Is there a way to configure the Maildir account type to make it > > useful in this scenario? I get the impression that perhaps > > Evolution > > needs to be told somehow that the “INBOX” subfolder prefix > > corresponds to the top-level Maildir. > > No. Because the Maildir standard says that the Inbox is the top level > folder, not a .xxx folder. Well, it is. It's just that Dovecot's decided that its subfolders should be prefixed with ".INBOX" It seems like Dovecot and Evolution don't quite agree about how to interpret the structure of a Maildir folder. Perhaps that's because, as you suggest, Dovecot is doing something proprietary. But it really doesn't matter if Evolution and Dovecot should never share a Maildir folder as I was attempting to do. Thank you for the insight. -- Braden McDaniel ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] Maildir account not showing messages
[I posted this to discourse.gnome.org several days ago; but it doesn’t seem to be getting much traction there.] I have a Maildir in my home directory that was created and maintained by Dovecot. I am attempting to use Evolution’s Maildir account type to show these messages. When I point this account at “~/Maildir”, I see a top-level folder called “INBOX” with the many subfolders I would expect. However, selecting INBOX or any of its subfolders shows no messages. Instead, there is a top-level folder called “Inbox”. This has the messages I would expect to see in “INBOX”; but it has none of the subfolders. On the filesystem, subfolders beneath “~/Maildir” look like “.INBOX.*”. Is there a way to configure the Maildir account type to make it useful in this scenario? I get the impression that perhaps Evolution needs to be told somehow that the “INBOX” subfolder prefix corresponds to the top-level Maildir. -- Braden McDaniel ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Kmail
On 1/18/10 1:40 PM, Gerald wrote: Is there a filter that will allow me to import Kmail mail into Evolution? I usually have kmail/Evolution on all machines that I have running and at some point merge all machines to one of them to get all the sentmail etc updated. That sounds... painful. Have you thought about just running a local IMAP server? Braden ___ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
