On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:48:23 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > i see some ambiguity in using maildirs through IMAP and directly through > the filesystem, especially when using KMail.
It's one of the issues that I've been fighting for quite a long time, and still haven't found a final answer. > The "canonical" directory for maildirs is ~/Maildir, where the inbox is > in the root of that directory, and any other mail-directory is a > subdirectory of it. The IMAP-servers I tried (courier-imap, imap-uw and > dovecot, all in /usr/ports/mail) only use the subdirectories whose name > starts with a dot. Further, most IMAP servers don't accept subsubdirs as I have in my ~/Maildir/ hierarchy. The dot is IMAP's traditional hierarchy delimitor; however, the server is free to choose it's own and the client must understand it. > KMail on the other hand, when using maildirs as "local folders", always > assumes they are in ~/Mail This should be configurable. Try Evolution instead. > Creating some symlinks to "mirror" the situation might be a usable > solution, but that's not very elegant. Anyone knows a better solution? Well FSOV of "elegant" and "better" you might find my solution interesting. I use bincimap because of it's flexibility in directory serving. I use an IMAPdir depot which I locate on a hidden subdirectory populated with symlinks to the real Maildir subdirs. qvb -- pica _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
