On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:32, Bradley Alexander wrote: > Hi, > > Quick question. I emailed a few weeks back about being able to access > emails on my workstation from my laptop. I did get it set up, chose > IMAP, because in my limited experience, IMAP, by default, leaves the > messages on the server, where I could gather them later on the > workstation. This is, for the record, the Debian build of version 1.0.1 > on Debian/sid (i386) boxes. The mailserver is running Debian/woody on a > Sparc with Postfix. > > I had evo running on the laptop and it was gathering mail all right, > but I found out that messages were being deleted from the server. the > engine apparently was still running on the laptop after I killed it, and > it was still grabbing messages. I noticed I was not getting the volume > of mail I normally did. Since it was saturday night/sunday, I thought > this was normal, but when I posted to a mailing list and it never made > it (and I had a 250 message from the mailserver), I started > investigating further. I found there were directories on the laptop > called > > $HOME/evolution/mail/imap/storm@defiant > $HOME/evolution/mail/imap/storm@vorcha
These are cache directories which are especially needed for disconnected IMAP operation, but also used in normal IMAP operation to increase performance. > > In the storm@vorcha directory, I saw files named > > 803. > 803.HEADER > > etc. > > The .HEADER file is the mailheader, which is normally the only thing > that gets downloaded from the server. But the ###. file appears to be > the actual message. Right. > > My questions are thus: > > 1. How can I "repatriate" these messages back onto defiant? I was > thinking along the lines of "cat *. >> mail.out", copy mail.out back to > defiant, and possibly appending it to /var/spool/mail/storm. Would > something along these lines work? I suppose... I think you'll also have to prepend a "From user@host date" line to the beginning of each message though (in order to make it mbox format at least). > > 2. I notice that pop mail in evo has an option to leave the files on the > server. When I was setting up the piggyback from the laptop, I noticed > this, but thought that it was because IMAP was going to leave the files > intact on the server. What options do I have at this point? use POP and > leave the files on the server, or am I missing a crucial piece of the > puzzle? POP has the "leave mail on server" option because POP is a spool protocol which means you normally remove the message after you have fetched it. IMAP is not a spool protocol, thus there is no need for that option. IMAP acts more like a normal local folder hierarchy in that mail stays in the folders until the user deletes them. I think you are confused (or maybe I am?). Evolution is not deletingany messages off the server behind your back, if they are getting deleted it's because you are hitting ^D or the delete toolbar button/menu item and then expunging the folder (at some later point). Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
