Evolution

[Rashkae]

scott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I recently switched from Kubuntu to Ubuntu and would love to give 
> Evolution a try, but it seems to have one thing that I find annoying. 
> It seems to want to group every single email from every source into the 
> same folder like Kmail.  I currently use Thunderbird and it nicely takes 
> each individual email and gives it its own folder with its own sent, 
> inbox, etc.
> 
> 	Is that possible to get in evolution without too much trouble and, if 
> possible, how would I do that?
> 

Sort of.

You can create subfolders in your Local mail for each mail account with 
it's own mail box.

One of the nice things in Evolution that thunderbird doesn't have is the 
incoming mail filters allows you filter based on which mail account the 
message originated from, so you can put each message from account1 into 
account1/Inbox and each message from account2 to account2/Inbox.

If, otoh, you want to completely segregate the storage for each mail 
account, you can do this by creating a directory where you'll be storing 
your e-mails, with an empty Inbox file.  Then you can add those 
directories to Evolution as E-mail account types "Standard Unix Mailbox 
File or Directory", and using the Incoming message filters, filter the 
messages incoming from each of your pops into their own mailbox directory.

ex:

mkdir ~/test
touch ~/test/Inbox


Or, if you prefer to use the Maildir format, (suggest this on an XFS 
partition to avoid performance issues for mailboxes with > 10,000 messages)

mkdir ~/test
cd ~/test
mkdir cur tmp new