[Evolution] home mail howto?

[Erik Bågfors]

In my opinion you ARE working to hard.  I would do.

*) Keep the local folders you have
*) Create a IMAP-account
*) Create new folders in IMAP
*) Move mails trough evolution (drag and drop)

Done... it might take a while but so what?

/Erik

On tor, 2004-05-13 at 08:09 -0400, Tom Cooper wrote:
> I'm very close to what I want, but it seems like I've needed to jump
> through some hoops to make it work.  I'm hoping that someone can offer
> some evolution assistance...
> 
> Using uw-imap I've noticed that Evolution sees /var/spool/$USER as
> INBOX, and that it is possible for Evolution to see mbox files in
> $HOMEDIR, but it seems harder than it might need to be.
> 
> I have been using Evolution to retrieve my POP mail, so all of my old
> mail is organized on the local filesystem in the 'Evolution' way.  I
> want to be able to see $HOMEDIR/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox, Sent/mbox,
> and Drafts/mbox using imap.
> 
> The technique that I've used to be able to do that is to use Evolution
> to create a new folder called $HOMEDIR/Mail, then go to $HOMEDIR from
> the shell, delete the newly created Mail file, copy
> $HOMEDIR/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox to $HOMEDIR/Mail.
> 
> Once I do that, I can read the files from my old Inbox.  I repeat the
> process for Drafts and Sent.  This works, but it seems like more work
> than it ought to be.
> 
> Is there a simpler way to accomplish this? I'd like to have those mbox
> files in a subdir under $HOMEDIR, but again, I need to create a folder,
> delete the file, create a directory of the folder name, then create
> folders in that folder, delete those files, and copy the mbox files.
> 
> Am I working too hard?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tom Cooper
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 18:50, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 20:04 -0400, Tom Cooper wrote: 
> > > OK.  I think I get how to configure evolution to write sent mail to the
> > > 'sent' folder on the imap server, but I'm unclear how to set up the imap
> > > server to:
> > > a) allow writes, and 
> > Well presumably it should already?  Unless its been specifically
> > configured not to. 
> > > b) read the data that is currently in the ~username/evolution/INBOX/mbox
> > > file (and other mbox files as well)
> > Depends a bit on the server.  For uw-imapd, you can just copy the mbox
> > files to named files in ~/mail, and/or then you subscribe to the
> > folders using your client.  If the server uses maildir you may need to
> > do something different (i.e. convert the mailboxes).
> > 
> > With uw-imapd folders can either only have messages or only have other
> > folders, since they're mbox files with directory separators.
> > 
> > 
> > Michael Zucchi
> > <notzed@ximian.com>
> > 
> > Ximian Evolution and
> > Free Software Developer
> > 
> > 
> > Novell, Inc.
> 
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