Hello Pete, > mailing list headers. There's a "Reply-to-list". Sorry, did not know that; found it now.
> a modern multi-account email system. I'm sorry your experience of it > has been tainted by other MUAs twisting into something it was never > designed to be. That is certainly the case; I'll try IMAP then. > No, that *IS* the Maildir format. The Inbox is the top level with > cur/new/tmp all other mailfolders are subdirectories with subfolders > separated by a '.' Ah, I see, that is intended. Thanks for the explanation. > Creating an account like this in Evolution does not automatically > create any other mail folders - it is merely a method of pointing > Evolution to a store of mail. Understood. > > - create a maildir on $HOME/Mail/Received > > - create a maildir on $HOME/Mail/Sent > > These are not consistent statements. Yes, I see that now. - add a "Received" logical folder to my local > > If you mean a Search Folder (there's no "logical folder" in > Evolution) What I meant by that is a folder for an account that appears as say "Received", but exists in the file system as `.Received` > I would strongly advise that you don't mess around with what > Evolution > would consider its private working files. It will have undefined > consequences and it is not unknown for file layouts to change in > future > versions. Yes, you are right, that is perhaps better. > Why do you have such an objection to the Evolution metadata? I would consider the emails as sent and received as primary data, any other derived data as metadata which I do not want to backup or make persistent; the metadata pertains to the view of the emails. Kind regards, peter _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
