Of course I use mozilla mail for as my principle MTA (?) but one thing I
love about evolution is that I can have mail from my customers flaged
without moving it from my imap folders. (so when I go back to mozilla
its still there). I *love* this and I can even keep all my buisness
email in one folder but have v-folders for them all. This rocks. 

Carl P. 


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