[Evolution-users] Receive mail directly on my own computer

[Milan Crha]

On Tue, 2025-10-21 at 01:13 +0200, Van Snyder via evolution-users
wrote:
> I don't know what to put in "Server Type" on the "Receiving Mail"
> page for a new account. I tried "None," hoping that would be "no
> external serer" but the account doesn't appear in the left sidebar.
> At least I don't get "unable to …" when I pick it from the
> "Send/Receive" button. Yeah, the "Enabled" box is checked. The "Type"
> column says "SMTP."

	Hi,
you created a send-only account, which cannot receive anything, it can
be used for sending only, thus it's shown in the message composer.

To be able to read messages as the `mail` you mentioned in the message
does, you should use Server Type "Standard Unix mbox spool file" and
point it to your mail file, which is somewhere like
/var/spool/mail/$USER

	Bye,
	Milan