Re: Evolution, a Maildir style mailbox, and folders

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 09/27/06 14:05, Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 23:00 +0400, Виталий Ищенко wrote:
>> I've set up courier-imap
>> And the only thing I have to edit in /etc/courier/imapd
>>
>> ADDRESS=127.0.0.1 (or whatever you like :)
>> and
>> MAILDIRPATH=.Maildir (relative to home folder)
> 
> Okay, thanks.  I think I've figured out how to get Evolution to work
> without using imap, though.

Using IMAP is definitely useful, though, since it breaks the link
between data and presentation.  Examples:

(1) Back during the X.org 7.0 transition, my GUI broke for a couple
of days.  Since I use fetchmail/postfix/spamassasin/maildrop, and
use postfix as a smarthost, I was able, using links2, to configure
mutt to use IMAP and still have my email fetched and filtered and
sent without any reconfiguration.

(2) Occasionally, Evo would break or I'd get tired of it's bloat.
Temporarily moving to Sylpheed was trivial for the same reason as
with Mutt.

(3) When I decided to permanently move to Tbird, same ease as (1)
and (2).


(4) If I ever decide to implement webmail, it will be easy.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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