mutt, fetchmail, and evolution

[Chris Lemire]

I found some directions for what I want here, but
 I'm having trouble following them.
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/users/2002-January/001270.html

His instruction say this:

Then simply set evolution to use imap
and the directory $HOME.
I have set Evolution to use imap on localhost.
 How can I set which directory Evolution uses?


On 10/15/07, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 23:51 -0500, Chris Lemire wrote:
> > How can I synchronize mutt email client and evolution email client to
> > use the same email that has been downloaded? mutt uses fetchmail to
> > create a mbox file in my home directory. I've searched google. If
> > anyone has done this or knows of a good website to learn how, please
> > tell me. Also I am unable to download yahoo mail with email clients.
> > However I am using fetchyahoo to download my mail and add it to the
> > mbox file that fetchmail creates, so I am able to see my yahoo mail
> > with mutt, but not evolution. I'd like for Evolution email client to
> > be able to read that email. How is it possible?
> >
>
> not an answer, but i had trouble doing this about 2 years ago b/c
> evolution keeps track of its mailboxes in a metadata file, and doesn't
> like to have them touched in between.  you would probably need some kind
> of a mutt extension that talks to evolution-data-server and performs the
> relevant operations form within evolution, or something.  i don't know
> how to do this, but i imagine it'd be doable, given evolution's plugin
> structure and mutt's immense extensibility.
>
> in the end my indecision was solved for me when i had an injury that
> limited my typing to one finger; mutt became too awkward to use and now
> i'm stuck with evolution.  if i could do some hybrid like you're
> suggesting i'd be back to using mutt 80% of the time in a second.
>
> matt
>
>
> > --
> > Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
> --
> Matt Price
> matt.price at utoronto.ca
>
>



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Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>