Courier-imap supports Maildir. Actually it only supports Maildir. You
can find a link to it on freshmeat. I have been using for a few years
now and I am glad to report that it is very stable and works well with
Evolution.

Pascal

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 06:49, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> Not Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > What exactly are sequences?
> 
> MH uses sequences to track which messages are read, unread, etc.
> Users can use them to mark groups of messages with specific tags, etc.
> 
> > Although i'm not sure the code works as well as it shoudl with this
> > (it is supposed to ...) you should just be able to create a 'mh'
> > mail tree inside evolution without having to change anything at all
> > ...  That should at least let you try the idea out in a
> > non-destructive manner. Things like read flags and so forth aren't
> > terribly well supported however.
> 
> Yep, exactly.  The #mh/ folderspace works in imap, but is broken with
> respect to sequences.  I can't tell which messages are unread, for
> example.
> 
> > Long term i'd suggest changing to use maildir as your folder format,
> > as stated before, procmail can still be used to filter your messages
> > directly into a maildir tree.  You can then just point evolition at
> > the maildir tree (this *does* work well at the moment).  mh has some
> > technical issues which make maildir a much better solution.  You can
> > then access that directly through evo, or a text client that
> > supports it (e.g. mutt, pine with patches) or via imap, or whatever
> > you want.
> 
> Which imap server(s) supports maildir format?
> 
> > So basically apart from changing your mailbox formats to maildir,
> > the operation of your system should essentially remain the same.
> > i.e.  incoming -> procmail -> folder tree.  Evolution can access the
> > folder tree simultaneously with other programs/procmail etc and/or
> > you can use imap and whatnot.
> 
> This sounds like it might work.
> 
> --[Lance]
> 
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