Re: [Evolution] biff & evo

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 14:04, Francisco Sant'Anna wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I didn't find a good solution to integrate my biff like program with
> Evolution.
>
> I download the messages with fetchmail to mbox and when one arrives the
> biff icon shows up.
>
> The problem is that after I read, the biff continues to indicate that
> there's new mail.

Well, what is it using to detect this?

> Reading the archives I could see that there's the also the problem of
> the folder's updates, which is very annoying.

What do you mean?  You mean storing message attributes to disk so they
dont get lost when you shutdown - is annoying, as opposed to "necessary
basic feature"?

> How do you do to workaround this ?
> And will this be "fixed" soon ?
>
> I really liked evolution, but these problems are very annoying.

Well it depends somewhat on what your 'biff' is doing.