I use evolution as my email client. I like the interface. I recently
enabled IMAP on my mail server. I changed my mail account settings in
evolution to IMAP so that I would be able to access all my mail wherever
I was, either locally through evolution or remotely through
squirrelmail. I'm having two small problems with this. Problem one is
that when I send email while using evolution the sent mail gets sent
and then moved into evolution's local Sent folder; I want it to be moved
into the IMAP Sent folder. Secondly, when I click on the INBOX button
(immediately below the Send/Receive button) to change the folder
currently being viewed not only do I see local and IMAP folders, but I
also see all the files (including .* hidden files) in my personal
account on my server PC and not just contents of the ~/mail directory. Is there a way that I can change my configuration of either IMAP or
evolution so that mail I send gets put in the IMAP Sent folder and that
I only see IMAP folders on my folders list? Also, I was a little
curious as to where the IMAP address book file(s) is because I looked at
the /home/michael/ and /home/michael/mail directories and could find no
address book files, yet my address book works in squirrelmail. Is it a
squirrelmail thing?
-Michael Sullivan-
To restrict your view of the server to the ~/mail directory you need to specify a different namespace. To do this, in the receiving options dialog check the "Override server-supplied directory namespace" option and enter the new namespace in the text box. What you need to enter there depends on the imap server. Try ~/mail, if the imap server is sensible that should work. If not, try the absolute path to your mail directory.
There are other options with many strange and wonderous meta-characters, but try the simple ones first.
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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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