Hi, I justed wanted to say that I was astonished by Evolution working out of the box with all the mails I stored using Gnus Emacs “nnml” backend, which, as far as I remember, is like “nnmh” (or also “nnspool”, say the documentation) backend, except it has “.overview” files to index files and become quicker, based on something coming from news servers.
Running Evolution for the first time, and trying “MH” to see if it worked out of the box (it did) I learned it had some indexation file “.folder” facilities coming from “exmh” (appearing to be a Tcl/Tk GUI of nmh), which I ignore the working, but may have something in common with “.overview” in its working. Thus, beside congratulating you for a such cool software (as I previously said in another mail [1], Evolution was my first free-software user-agent ^^ and it performed fantastic, though it was of a little bit complicated appearance), I’d like to know where did you find a good enough specification of “exmh .folder” format (except evidently exmh’s source code itself), so I could maybe link it to Gnus developers so they may be interested in reading, importing or exporting it, since something as big and old as Evolution uses it. Also I’d like to know if, knowing it’s based on even older and more standard usenet stuff, for you might be interested in this “.overview” thing gnus currently use [2] to index files instead of or in addition to “.folders”, or maybe import/export it. [1] Why X-Mailer instead of User-Agent? <[email protected]> [2] http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_84.html#Choosing-a-Mail-Back-End _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
