On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 4:04 am, Robert W. wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 20:15, Michael Noble wrote: > > I have been using Evolution at home and it uses maildir, it is > > not as straight forward as the Mail directory approach, but I did > > find that each sub folder does actually contain an mbox file > > which is standard mbox format. > > mbox stores all messages in one giant file. maildir stores each > message in its own file. Evolution is using mbox format. But it > manages multiple mbox files by placing them in different > directories. This is not the same as maildir. > > A maildir has three subdirectories: new, cur, and tmp. 'tmp' is > what it sounds like: a place for temporary files. 'new' contains > unread messages. And 'cur' contains messages you have read. > Evolution supports the maildir format also. Your messages go into > 'new' (or 'cur' after reading), one file per message.
All this started from the fact that I could find no way of getting KMail maildirs into Evo . Any ideas on that one? Anne
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