Evolution

[John Abreau]

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> I have a couple of questions regarding Ximian Evolution that I was unable 
> to find in their FAQ:
> 1. Does it support MH folders directly or do they need to be imported into 
> Evolution's VFolders.
> 2. While it supports multiple accounts, does it do this easily through 
> identities. (Eg. I send email out as several different identities from my 
> system).
> 3. Support for GPG. I know they support GNUpg and the existing standard, 
> but are they compatible with most other Linux email programs.
> 
> (Note: I've tried several of the other email programs and always return to 
> exmh because they all lack something I want, however while exmh is now 
> maintained as Open Source, there has been no changes for 3 years).

The version I'm running is exmh 2.5 07/13/2001. I keep hearing rumors 
of an impending new release on the exmh-users list. 

Last time I looked at evolution, its GPG support sucked horribly. I never 
looked at its support for multiple accounts.

MH folder support was kind of a hack; you had to edit the folder xml 
config files by hand and symlink to the actual MH folders, i.e.

    ~/evolution/local/Inbox/local-metadata.xml:
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <folderinfo>
      <folder type="mh" name="mbox" index="1"/>
    </folderinfo>

and then make ~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox a symlink to ~/Mail/inbox/

To be fair, I last looked at evolution when Redhat 7.3 came out, which 
was sometime around May 2002. For all I know, one or more of these 
deficiencies could have been fixed by now. 


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