Re: WAS: Kinda OT: Email clients -- NOW: Storage formats

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Tim:
>> Of the few folders mine does store locally, it's in maildir.  I
>> don't know if that's user-selectable, though.  The preferences
>> window even says it's maildir for the default "on this computer"
>> folder, but that folder's not editable (there's only an
>> enable/disable entire folder option for it).
>>
>> I suspect though, that internally it sticks with maildir for
>> storing any mail it's fetched itself.  All the local mail folders I
>> see in ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/ are maildir.

Patrick O'Callaghan:
> IIRC it's the default for the account, but can be changed at setup
> time.
> 
> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-account-management.html.en#mail-common-account-types
> 

The "on this computer" folder(s) can be switched on or off, but can't
be deleted or edited for format type.

I'd already mentioned creating non-network ones (as far as Evolution is
concerned), where something else has fetched the mail and locally
stored them, for them you can configure how Evolution works with them. 
Indeed, you have to, if something else brought in mail as maildir, then
you need Evolution to work in the same way.

I'd noticed that for my other accounts I'd created they don't have any
local folders.  Accounts I'd created to use IMAP with my LAN mail
server, IMAP with gmail, SMTP with Yahoo, etc.  I don't have any of
them set to locally cache, and I'm not going to try it to see what it
does.  But I'd suspect maildir would get used for any caching, based on
the other local one that doesn't offer you configuration options, you
don't get any questions about how to store these, either.

Oddly, there's some orphaned folders in there untouched from when I
experimented with Evolution a couple of years back, where there's a
folder name of a hash@domain name with a folders.db SQL file in it. 
I've created and removed folders since their dates, so I'm certain
they're old ones unrelated to current operation.  I think they should
have been deleted by Evolution at the time, but they've not been. 
There's only about 12kB in total, so I don't care all that much.

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