[SLUG] Evolution & IMAP

[steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

We have been using Lotus Notes for email for around 8 years.  Notes has a 
fairly sophisticated database replication / mail holding system which is 
especially useful for occasionally connected users.  They can prepare 
emails off line and when they connect send the mail and pick up any new 
mails.  The server mail file  and the client mail get updated to hold the 
same data.  (This is also configurable)

I have converted a couple of users to Linux running Redhat 9 and they are 
using Evolution as the client.  They can read mail using IMAP, although 
they only get a local copy of new mail in a particular folder if they open 
that folder while connected to the server.  When they send mail the 
senders copy is only stored on the particular computer they happen to be 
sitting at.  They would like it to get stored on the server as well.

A work around we use at the moment is that the user bcc's themselves a 
copy and then later files that appropriately on the server.

Has anyone else found this to be a problem?  I don't know if IMAP supports 
it but it would be nice to be able to send mail via IMAP and hus via the 
central server as well as read it and then a copy would be kept on the 
server.  This is not an option in Evolution.  Does anyone have another 
solution?  I guess this is a problem with many email systems where users 
may access their mail from multiple locations or over an intermittent 
connection.

Regards to all
Steven