Thanks for the explanation. It helps a lot. I've been using mailx and pine and a little netscape (only lately) until evolution. Evolution is a vast universe of email goodies! John
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 12:04, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 12:42, John Weber wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 1. In the Receiving options tab for editing an account, what's the > > difference between "Standard Unix mbox spools" and "Local Delivery"? > > - Standard Unix mbox spools will create a a subtree of folder(s) in the > folder-tree view and leave messages there. This is for people who want > to share mbox folders between mail clients. So for example you could > tell evolution to read an mbox spool such as /home/<user>/Mail/inbox > that might actually be part of Balsa, KMail, mutt, pine, etc > > - Local Delivery is if you want Evolution to "download" mail from say > /var/spool/mail/<user> and filter it into your various other folders > (assuming you have filters setup, otherwise it delivers them to Inbox). > > > > > 2. What is "Mail-dir format mail directories" ? > > If you don't know, you probably don't have it :-) > > Maildir is the mail format that QMail uses, I think mutt also has > support for it. > > Jeff > > > > > Thanks, John > > -- > > John S. Weber > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > -- > If they want the monkey love, they've gotta love the monkey. -- John S. Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
