setting maildir directory in evolution

[Jamie Dobbs]

A quick suggestion you might try:

Run Exim as a mail server, tell it the location of your maildir (and the
fact it is running against maildir) then use Evolution to access the email
through Exim.

> Hullo there.
>
> This question has been posed via Launchpad, with no answer forthcoming
> as yet. I have struck a bug with evolution as installed in feisty
> (evolution version 2.10.1), which is that there is no way to select the
> desired maildir-format directory. The dialogue forces you to select a
> file, not a directory. I have many, many megabytes of mail in maildir
> format that I want to access via evolution :-(
>
> So I selected a file instead of a directory, then went and hand-edited
> the file in which evolution appears to store this data, namely:
>
>    ~/.gconfd/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.conf
>
> but it magically gets reset back to whatever it was before. Either I
> don't know where the "real" valueis stored, or something else is going
> on.
>
> So: Does anyone else out there use Evolution 2.10.1 and maildir-format
> directories? If so, how did you set your maildir?
>
> Regards, K.
>
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