Hi All, Haven't been watching this thread too closely, actually I have deleted most of it.. O.K. It looks like someone swapping between different E-mailers.. I have a really easy suggestion here, and that is to set yourself up a local Imap server, and just get your mailer to connect to the localhost Imap server, then you can switch E-mailers at any time without worrying about how they store their mail. Just grab any Imap compatible E-mail client either, Evo, Kmail Mozilla etc and connect to the localhost Imap server.. switch at any time, and the mail will appear in them all..
Cheers Mark On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 00:42, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 05:03, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for that explanation, Lyvim. It's given me a lot to think > > about. The thing that put me off maildir was that when I tried to > > import from KMail into Evo it wouldn't read the mail. I tried both > > reading methods in the import, but it wouldn't read a single file. > > This made me feel that it was almost as bad as the proprietary > > formats found elsewhere. > > > > Have you any thoughts on that? > > > > Anne > > I have done it, but there are several qualifications for doing this. > First, if you are transporting from Kmail to Evo like you are, Kmail > should be made to put ALL subfolders back into the inbox; this way you > can snag or convert everything at once since categorized or filtered > email will not be seen(because it is in other folders). Evo filters can > be applied later to the whole imported load. Second, you tell Kmail to > convert to Maildir format. This will cause Kmail to create the new, > cur, and tmp dirs and then move each message seperately to an > appropriate filename within the ~/Mail/inbox/cur directory. Third, you > copy the files in the newly converted Kmail inbox (Which for some wierd > reason seems to be ~/Mail instead of ~/Maildir for maildir mail) over to > the Evo Maildir/new dir. > > > With Evo already in Maildir format, Evo should have a configuration for > receiving mail that says /home/you/Maildir for it's folder > configuration. With Evo in that mode, when you look at the folder tree > (within Evo), you will see a tree that starts with your email name, and > a dot (.) tree underneath it. That dot is actually the ~/Maildir/cur > directory. > > Now all you do at this point is to go to the Kmail main inbox dir > ( ~/Mail/inbox/cur ) and then copy everything over to the Evo Maildir > directory for incoming mail. Which is ~/Maildir/new. > > So > > cp -v ~/Mail/inbox/cur/* ~/Maildir/new > > After that, go back to Evo and click on another folder in the tree > somewhere, and Evo will see the ~/Maildir/new directory and then create > an index of sorts for all the new mail, then it will be moved over to > the ~/Maildir/cur directory, where you can then apply the Evo filters > you have set up. > > How's that? ;) > > HTH.. > > > --LX > > P.S. One more thing. Any mail that's filed under your Evo dot > directory will be in Maildir format. Any mail that's filed in the Evo > main tree above that will be in mbox format, *no matter what method* > you've chosen under the Mail Accounts settings. > > So in order to keep all your mail in Maildir format, your custom > categorization folders need to be created *under the dot directory* in > the Evo tree.
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