On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 21:26, Timothy Bateman wrote: > Slug, > Has anyone tried to use a standard mbox file as an inbox for both > Ximian Evolution and Pine. I tried this, both could see the messages > fine, except when I marked them as being read in Pine, when I then later > opened Evolution (having shut down Pine) the messages appeared in the > message table but when I tried to view any message Evolution complained > the mailbox was corrupted. > > I want to find a solution so both Evolution and Pine can access the > same mbox file so I can choose to use either interchangeably. Is this > possible ?
I should think so. I use evolution and mutt together on the same mbox mailfiles. evolution from my desktop machine at home using imap to the mail server (keeping all mail on the server) then when I go into work I "empty trash" and exit evolution then from work I ssh in and run mutt directly on the mailserver. If I forget to exit evolution then when I get back home it will complain about corrupted mailfiles cos mutt has changed them underneath it. So long as you only use one mail reader at a time it should be ok. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
