Hello Pete, many thanks for the comprehensive reply.
> > Whenever I set up POP accounts now, all received/sent emails are > > swallowed by the "On This Computer" which I do _not_ want to see at > > all. > > > Well, POP is a mail retrieval protocol. It retrieves your mail from a > remote server and puts it into the local mail account. That is how > POP > is supposed to work, and that is what Evolution does. Sorry if you > don't want to see that. Yes, I am aware that POP is a retrieval protocol and I am happy about that; what I am not happy is that evolution funnels _all_ POP mails into a single Folder named "On this computer", which contains the logical folders "Inbox", "Sent" and others. Looking into $HOME/.local/share/evolution/mail/local I see that there are folders `cur`, `new` and `tmp` corresponding to the maildir for `Inbox`; and there is a maildir folder for every logical folder such as `.Sent` for "Sent". I would have expected that there would be a dedicated `.Inbox`, too, to make things consistent. > Help -> Contents -> Common Mail Questions and Problems > -> Separating POP mail for more than one account Thanks, I'll look into that. > If you want to keep $HOME/Archive then you need to create a separate > account that points to that directory. > > Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Accounts -> Add > Identity -> fill in information it's not important what. > -> untick "Lookup mail server" at bottom > > Receiving Email -> Server Type: Maildir format mail directories > -> Mail Directory: select correct folder > > Receiving Options -> uncheck all if your aren't receiving into it > > Sending Email -> Server type: None > > Account summary -> Name: fill in suitable name I have tried that, i.e. create a folder $HOME/Mail/Archive, then add a maildir account pointing to that; unfortunately, it does not create a `Sent` folder in that logical maildir folder. And if I create a subfolder "Sent", I get a `.Sent` on the file system which is not what I want either. > But in all honesty it looks like what you actually need is IMAP, not > Really, the easiest way of achieving that is using IMAP - everything > will be kept on the server and they are absolutely independent of > Evolution. Not quite. I do like all my emails, past present and future to be stored on my local file system. Ideally, I do not want any meta data of the client contaminating that either. I will try the following - create a maildir on $HOME/Mail/Received - create a maildir on $HOME/Mail/Sent - add a "Received" logical folder to my local rm -r $HOME/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Received rm -r $HOME/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Sent ln -s $HOME/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Received $HOME/Mail/Received ln -s $HOME/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Sent $HOME/Mail/Received This way, I hope, the maildir points to a more visible location in my home folder which I can backup _without_ evolution metadata. 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
