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Evolution for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Nov 26 21:38:12 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:28:35 -0500
Message-Id: <200111270228.VAA08821@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: sofa@mit.edu
Cc: aui@mit.edu
Adventurous users can now try out the Evolution mail reader on Athena,
for Linux only. Evolution is the current leading candidate for the
default mail client in the Athena 9.1 release. To try it, run:
athrun evolution
After it comes up, select the "INBOX" folder under the "MIT Mail"
heading. Evolution will read your mail over IMAP, without removing it
from your PO server.
This is a build of the sources currently in the Athena tree, and
contains some local customizations:
* Hesiod support
* Partial MH support
* MIT-specific preconfiguration for first-time users, instead of the
startup druid
Together, these comprise most of the local behavior changes I expect
to make to Evolution, although there are a few tweaks left.
Please report any problems you find to me.
Notes:
* This is testing software. I've used it to read my mail for a
while now and haven't seen it do anything obnoxious, but it's not
officially supported and it's not very mature software either
within our environment or in the outside world.
* It will leave some processes behind when you exit. They should be
harmless, but if you want them to go away, you can run "killev"
from the evolution locker to kill almost all of them off. (The
one process it doesn't kill is called "oafd".)
