Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.
Jonathan Walther wrote:
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> I tried evolution tonight. It is impressive work. I wanted to import
> my 62 mbox mailboxes and 6 maildirs. Well, for whatever reason, it
> didn't let me import my maildirs. And the interface for importing
> mailboxes is painful for 62 different mailboxes. So I looked at how to
> do it "by hand", as any nice Unix application will easily allow one to
> do.
>
> It turns out to be fairly easy. Find a mail folder of the same type as
> the one you want to copy over, duplicate it with its new name, then
> symlink your original mbox to Foldername/mbox. It even has a nice
> function to convert my mboxes to maildirs, although new mailboxse are
> unfortunately not created in maildir format. I started evolution up,
> my folders were seen, I was happy. Then I exited.
>
> What happened? My symlink was erased! Gone! A new mbox file had been
> created from the contents of the original. This was bad enough, but it
> was a file of different size, indicating that QP (Quoted Printable) encoding
> had been redone, which is the cause of the GnuPG compatibility bug. So
> first evolution screwed me by making it so new mails going into the old
> mailbox won't be seen from evolution, but then it redoes the emails,
> causing GnuPG signatures to yield bogus "bad" matches!
>
> I hope that Evolution won't fall into the grave and anti-Unix error of
> assuming it is the only mail handling software on the system, nor that
> it can possibly know about all the mail software that is or might be in
> use on a system.
>
> Hopefully the symlink-being-erased bug will be fixed soon. I think
> overall Evolution has made great strides and become a great program.
> I look forward to further evaluating it when this issue is fixed.
IMO the good solution for this kind of problems is to use IMAP. don't
trust MUAs to work with files.
(of course, Evolution should play nice with symlinks)
erik
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