On 02/02/2011 09:22 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I'm using maildir format throughout, as I mentioned. > Everything is stored in ~/Maildir/ , > with folders like ~/Maildir/.In-08 . > The file ~/Maildir/subscriptions contains entries, eg In-08, > exactly corresponding to the folders I see in KMail (minus the dots). > > I have a folder ~/Maildir/Archive/ where I have put some ancient email, > eg the folder ~/Maildir/Archive/In-02/ is in maildir format > with sub-folders cur,new,tmp (the last two being empty). > But I see no way of listing the email in this folder in KMail. > I can view an individual email in the folder by "kmail --msg<filename>" > but this is impractical as there are dozens of files in the folder. seems maildir don't supports physical subdirectories at first so you cannot have a maildir mailbox under ~/Maildir/Archive/ you need to create a dir directly in ~/Maildir/.Archive.In-02/ if you need a maildir subfolder of another as in your example need a dovecot 1.1+ and modify the configuration more info in: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir > > I looked quickly at the dovecot documentation you mention, > but didn't find anything helpful. > I'll have a closer look at it though. > > Basically, to re-phrase my original query: > How can one "archive" old email in dovecot/KMail > so that it is not listed by a KMail client > but can nevertheless be accessed without too much difficulty? > well I don't use kmail but under a imap server the client is more or less irrelevant you only need subscribe and unsubscribe the ancient mailboxes when needed them in your email client Gabriel _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
