Compatibility with Evolution

[Philip Rhoades <phil pricom com au>]

Andrew, Pawel,


> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:13:20 +0000
> From: Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>
> Subject: Re: Compatibility with Evolution
> To: Andrew Conkling <andrewski fr st>
> Cc: balsa-list gnome org
> Message-ID: <1106727200l 27150l 0l pi biotech kth se>
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> On 01/26/2005 04:51:11 AM, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> > Is it possible to share a mailbox with Evolution?  I would like to
> be
> > able to interchange my mail between Balsa and Evolution if  
> possible.
>
> > If it is, is there a way to convert from mbox (which I'm using in
> > Balsa now)?
>
> I do not know what kind of mailbox format is used by evolution. Does
> anybody know that? Balsa can read mbox, maildir, mh formats. The
> ultimate way of sharing mailboxes between different programs and
> computers is to use IMAP but this will be an overkill if you access
> mail from one computer only.
>
> Pawel


At work I had to share mail folders between balsa, evolution and mutt.   
You can set up the folders for balsa and mutt so they point to the  
right place like - inbox:

	$HOME/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox

but what happens is the index files for evolution get out of sync when  
you change the mail file with balsa or mutt.  This does not seem to be  
a great problem though, evolution seems to detect that the file has  
changed and automatically rebuilds the index.

I did not have this setup in a very heavy duty situation though so  
YMMV.

Phil.
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