[plug] IMAP access to Evolution data stores

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:30:44PM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> Howdy folks,
> 
> I have a machine at home running Evolution and popping mail off an
> external server.
> 
> When I'm at work I want to set up an SSH tunnel to this home machine and
> access the Evolution data stores via IMAP - using Evolution on the work
> machine.  This is to look at _old_ emails, I've already got solutions to
> deliver the new ones to both places.
> 
> Would this require that the home machine be accessing this data via IMAP
> in the first place, or is there an IMAP server out there which can read
> the data directly from the Evolution directory and make sense of it?

Reading the evolution mboxes is possible, but would be more trouble
than just setting up an imap server, copying your mail folders into
there with evolution, and using that imap server for your email from
both places.  You _may_ also have an issue with evolution not locking
the mbox files because it's probably not expecting anything else to
access them.

For my own mail, I use mutt locally with a store of Maildir mailboxes,
and the imap server accesses the same Maildirs.  I get local and
remote access without locking issues.

As for as which imap server to use, I'm using courier's imapd and it
seems to work fine.  Also, dovecot has a good reputation.



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Russell Steicke

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