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On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 00:12, tickticker wrote:
> I'm beginning to play around with evolution, and migrating all mail from=20
> maildir to mbox format, but saw not compelling reason to migrate from kma=
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> However, I have no clue how to utilize the virtual folders.  Could anyone=
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> a brief rundown of their use and how it applies to real world use?  This=20
> could be the straw that breaks the camels back.

I the most basic way, virtual folders are saved, persistent searches
through your mail.  So basically you can have criteria set up like a
filter, but that mail actually never leaves its original folder.

How do I use them?  For 90% of the uses of them, I use them like
filters, just putting them into folders based on the mailing list they
come from (or what ever criteria you set).  Why not use filters?=20
Because I keep all my email in the original folder.  This makes it
easier to search through, and easier to archive.  There were many times
before that I would think: "Oh, that e-mail was in January, but what
folder did I put it in."

Some of the more exotic uses of the vFolders is that I have two folders:
one which is all the e-mails that were sent today and the other is all
the e-mails that include my e-mail address in the header.  The first
folder I use mostly when I get behind in my mail.  It allows me to only
look through the most recent stuff.  The second one is pretty much my
'high priority' e-mail.  If it is actually sent to me, it is probably
more important that I respond.  And the cool thing, is that when I read
the e-mails in those folders, they are marked as read in every other
vFolder they are in.

Just because we're discussing Evolution, one thing that I think
Evolution does well is handle multiple e-mail accounts.  Stupid stuff
like setting the from to the address that it was sent to and handling
multiple GPG keys and signatures.  I don't know if that is useful for
too many people though.

		--Ted


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