IMAP and evolution

[Nigel Wade]

Michael Sullivan wrote:
> 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.

-- 
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail :    nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
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