Re: evolution + maildir (OT)

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Matt Davey wrote:

> I collect my messages from my pop server and store them locally.  So I
> have one 'account' configured as a pop server.  I have another 'account'
> configured as an 'mh' "server", which uses local directories to store
> messages, one file per email.  I have incoming filter rules that take
> the pop mail and puts the mail into appropriate mh folders.

Michal Janda asked:

> I am sorry, but I do not understand well. You download mails from that 
> account to local system by fetchmail or something like that?

Matt replied:
> No, evolution collects the mail.
>
> <disclaimer>
> there are some pretty bad bugs in evolution support for maildir/mh at
> the moment (2.8.0).  Expect some issues...
> </disclaimer> 

In which case, one may well want *not* to rely on Evolution for storing
mail at all. One option is to use fetchmail (or something similar) to
download the e-mail, store it in a normal maildir directory, and use
Dovecot to serve it up via IMAP.

Hope this helps,

James.

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