On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 05:50, Vikram Goyal wrote: > The big problem with it is that it's very difficult to configure and one > has to tweak it's nose, ear, tail etc everytime something outof default > from one's setup crops up. So I started configuring it through scripts > which would scan the mailbox and configure it before starting. Then I > thought others may take the benefit from the scripts, so I wrote them > for general usage and inbetween I inserted a bit of code which would > create a pseudo mailfolder which could be used by evolution to read the > same mails. Till now evolution was behaving sanely and creating it's > index files in the pseudo folder but recently its coder went ahead and > changed code where it would follow the symlink even when told explictly > that pseudo mailfolder is the folder of the mails. I think this is bad > practise and destroys the concept soft linking and sane programming. > Anyways the only solution which I think out of this is: What happens if you push it down a directory level so the progams always work in a real directory under the symlinked one? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx