[ale] Evolution and BellSouth storage question

[Michael B. Trausch]

tom, on 08/22/2007 09:51 AM said:
> I got my girlfriend setup on Ubuntu some time ago. She recently decided to 
> go with the AT&T $10/mo internet plan, which is largely working correctly. 
> The known remaining challenge is using Evolution for email, as I haven't 
> figured out/read how to get the email retained locally, on her hard disk. 
> Somehow, Evolution has a number of folders setup which appear to relate to 
> the pop server at Bell South, where she has reached her storage limit.
> 
> I have looked at the Evolution documentation, and fiddled with the 
> software, but my befuddled mind is missing the clue which almost _must_ be 
> there - so I ask here
> 
> How do I convince Evolution to create and use mail folders on the local 
> hard drive?
> 
> I will add, since somebody will suggest it, that changing email clients is 
> _not_ an option, as the lady in question has already rejected it.
> 

Since Thunderbird is already not an option... :-)

Evolution always did fine WRT pulling my mail from POP accounts as it
should've.  It would pull the messages to it's storage in my ${HOME},
and then purge them from the server.  However, the other issues that I
started to have with it really started bugging me---particularly the bug
in Feisty where Evolution no longer prints long messages correctly.  I
need to be able to do that from time to time, and that was the
proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for me.

I just switched back to Thunderbird after having used Evolution for over
a year, and am happy that Thunderbird has improved as much as it has.
There is only _one_ stinking issue that I can't figure out how to get
around:  How to make it quote only the part of the message that I
highlight with the mouse before hitting reply or pressing C-r.  Other
than that, everything's golden---even read/write integration with my
Google Calendar on my domain.

	-- Mike

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