Re: Evolution, a Maildir style mailbox, and folders

[Owen Heisler <owen@owenh.hopto.org>]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 13:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 09/27/06 10:44, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 10:27 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 09/27/06 09:55, Owen Heisler wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 23:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>>> On 09/26/06 20:08, Owen Heisler wrote:
> >>>>> I have set up a mail server using postfix and am using the maildir style
> >>>>> mailbox at "~/.mail".  I have set up that account in Evolution and can
> >>>>> view/delete messages from that mailbox.  I would like to create folders
> >>>>> in the mailbox as well.  Is this possible with Evolution?  Is is
> >>>>> possible with the Maildir mailbox style?
> >>>> Sure.  Highlight the maildir "inbox" and right-click.
> >>> Evolution won't let me.  The "New Folder" option is disabled.  If I try
> >>> from another folder, then try to select the Inbox from the resulting
> >>> dialog, it still won't let me.
> >> Hmmm, it always worked for me.  But then, I never used Maildir
> >> directly from Evo, but use IMAP.  Courier-IMAP, in turn, "talks
> >> Maildir".
> > 
> > I guess I'll have to figure out how to get that working then.
> 
> There are some good web sites showing how to do it.

I did some more experimenting with Evolution, and found that if I make a
folder and then put the three folders in it (tmp, cur, new), that
Evolution will work with it.  I guess Evolution just isn't smart enough
to do that itself.

So it's all working now (I just have to make folders manually), except
for a weird ".#evolution" folder that Evolution creates, and trying to
get Evolution to put sent messages in a "Sent" folder in ~/.Maildir;
instead it keeps them in its own ~/.evolution.