On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 22:43, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 01:02, Not Zed wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 20:11, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 01:55, Not Zed wrote: > > > > Its not requirred for pop or local delivery, they are by default always > > > > filtered. > > > > > > That's not my experience. I had my main Inbox set to local delivery and > > > a sym-link from evolution/local/Inbox/mbox to /var/spool/pete (which in > > > turn was an NFS mount from elsewhere). Filters were never automatically > > > > If you have a symlink like that, then you're not using local delivery, > > you're doing something which you shouldn't be ... > > When I first set up evolution there was no 'mbox spool' option, there > was just 'local delivery' or 'imap'. I have a local mailbox, and I > needed to get to it, so it seemed the obvious thing to do. > > What is 'Local Delivery' for?
Its for getting mail from /var*/mail/yourusername Or from any other temporary mailbox drop file. > > > The way you were doing it is actually completely unsupported, and i'm > > surprised you didn't lose mail or end up with a corrupted mailbox, as > > there is no way for evolution to do proper locking on your spool file. > > Is the problem locking it a problem with a symlink to a mail spool or > the fact that the mail spool is on an NFS mounted partition? The former. NFS should work since we use .lock as well as fcntl - although it really depends on how the server is configured to do locking. Nobody seems to agree on it. > > > the top of the Folders list - and AFAICS there is no way to arbitrarily > > > change the order of the things in that list. > > > > Nup, its just sorted alphabetically ... > > Except for 'Local Folders' which is always first! yeah _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
