Re: evolution

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:58:02PM -0500, Bill Williamson wrote:

> Any hints for getting offlineimap to work with ximian evolution?
> Its maildir support is shakey at best, but I need to use it for my work 
> email (MS exchange). 

If I understand you correctly, Evolution is, in fact, working with
OfflineIMAP, but the folder display is not what you want it to be?

> The basic problem is that it doesn't understand a maildir name seperator, so 
> it reads all my folders as (example) "Mailing Lists.blah" instead of 
> "Mailing Lists/blah". 

On the TODO list is supporting / as a separator for Maildirs in OfflineIMAP. 
It is not currently supported, but making it work should not be terribly
hard.

> I tried getting it to create recursive maildirs, and it does it by sticking 
> a maildir inside of a maildir.  I adjusted my folder transformation thing to 
> change . to /, but that didn't work (nor did I expect it to).  Any other 
> hints? 

I will try to get a version out that has this feature within a couple of
days, depending on how soon I can get our repository back up.

> Also, I'm using courier serverside.  The default inbox is name INBOX.  Is 
> there a way to get INBOX put at the root of the maildir, instead of in a 
> folder called INBOX? Replacing INBOX with '' just gives me an error. 

I will investigate this.  You may be able to accomplish this, once the
nested feature is added, by telling OfflineIMAP that your maildir repository
is at ~/Personal and telling Evolution that it is as ~/Personal/INBOX, with
all your other folders nested within there.

-- John

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