About the Mail Check thing and evolution

[john-thomas richards]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:23:53AM +0100, Ted Sola wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > 
> > > The mbox was found in /home/ted/evolution/local/Inbox/ yes. But there
> > > are constantly mails in that, even though I have moved all the mails to
> > > diffrent folders, and there are no new mails. So Check Mail thinks there
> > > are new mails constantly, in other words, not good for notifying when
> > > there are new :)
> > 
> > evolution requires a message 'expunge' after moving/deleting email.
> > have you done this?  i did on an old mbox and the mbox size is now zero.
> > 
> Thank you. This worked as long as the mail landed in the "inbox" folder,
> but i have filters which sends diffrent xfce-maillist mail to diffrent
> folders. And AFAIK these don't have their own mbox file. Anyway if they
> had, it would be necessary to watch several files, which is not a
> supported feature. 

actually, each 'folder' in evolution has its own mbox.  they are in the
various subdirectories of /home/ted/evolution/local.

> But, with this being sad, this is maybe turning into a bit more of an
> evolution problem than an xfce one, so I'll just be quiet and move
> workspace to check my mail :)
> 
> Thanks for the help everyone!
[snip]

perhaps you could use fetchmail to get your mail and put it in
/var/spool/mail/ted and have the mail checker check this.  then, upon
opening evolution, you could have your mail filtered by evolution.
-- 
john-thomas
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