> I use an email server in my department. On the server, in my home > directory, there is a Directory called Mail and within Mail are a bunch > of subdirectories.
Is your mail in mbox files (i.e. all mail for a folder in a single file) or Maildir format (mail in individual files held in a directory) > > On evolution, I have an account for the server and if I right click on > that, there is an item Manage Subscriptions. If I choose that there are > boxes next to the various items in the Mail directory which presumably I > can manage to subscribe to or not. But they appear in that account in > evolution whether or not I have subscribed to them. Edit -> Preferences -> <Select account> -> Edit -> Receiving Options and then tick "Show only subscribed folders" > One, in particular, > called from shows (50901), indicating a large number of unread messages. > If I click on from I see lots of messages with all fields blank except > Date which has a ? in it. That sounds like the mail is corrupt or there's an error in the formatting within the file on the server. > If I go to the server, I can read from and it > has lots of messages in it. When you say "go to the server" what do you mean? How do you read it? If you are using a Unix system what does 'file' reckon the format is? > > Is there some way I can prevent from from appearing in evolution? > Presumably, if I move it out of Mail on the server, that would do the > job, but that might mess up my mail some way or other. What is the > function of from? There's no specific function. As poc said, it is generally accepted these days that you keep mail folders away from users as much as possible - because if they are part of a user's filestore, then they inevitably feel that it is OK to fiddle with them, edit them, etc. and that causes havoc unless you really know what you are doing. One I often had problems with was people editing mbox files on a PC via an smb mount - some IMAP servers got really, really confused by the DOS line terminator and interpreted the CR+LF as two line breaks and produced some odd results. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
