On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 08:58 +0000, James Ogley wrote: > > However, the contacts seem to have disappeared from the desktop machine, > > indicating that the contacts data is held somewhere else. > > Did you sync ~/.gconf as well?
Thanks Magev and James. I would never have thought of .gconf as having anything to do with Evilotion! No, I didn't nfs export that directory. What else is held in that directory off home? Or is it only evolution stuff? I assume this is where junk filtering information is held as well. I don't know what you mean by "sync" in this context. All I'm doing is simply exporting the data directory (and now the .gconf directory) via nfs onto the local network so I can use mail from another desktop 'pooter rather than this creaking 400mhz/256mb old faithful that acts as a file server. For some reason, despite an IMAP mail account "somewhere in Britain" which I've had for, well, about '85 or '86 (perhaps it wasn't IMAP then but turned into IMAP at some point in the 90s) the mail kept on getting out of sync between the machines. In particular not tracking deletions and filing into sub folders on the IMAP box. I assume just exporting them via NFS is workable and there aren't any nasty pitfalls? Copying them would work too, but that wouldn't deal with the syncing problems. I'd prefer to be using Thunderbird, but for some reason that screws up and locks on the IMAP server. And I don't want to give that account up - its really cheap now, and too convenient! Evolution, though I don't like it that much, does the job. Sylpheed Claws also screws up with the imap server. Otherwise Sylpheed looks very effective as a user software. So I suspect something not quite compliant about the server they are using. Hopefully they are keeping it patched! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
