Also, mutt seems to work well with Maildir/ formatted mailboxes. I just followed this guide and it is working with my ExtendedMaildirFormat setup.
http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Maildir On 5/20/2010, "David Kaiser" <dkai...@cdk.com> wrote: >Hi Jeff, > >Are you saying that kmail has a specific flavor of maildir or some >deviation that makes it different than the standard "Maildir/" >approach used by everyone else? > >Oh wow, I just found it discussed here: >http://wiki.mutt.org/?ExtendedMaildirFormat There's the >"Extended" format used by everyone else, and there's the way Kmail >did it. (I guess I'm really glad I didn't ever use Kmail...) > >I highly recommend using an IMAP server against your Maildir content, and >having all your mail clients interact with your mail spool over IMAP. >This would prevent the case of having local clients store things in >arbitrarily deviated formats. > >Does Kmail support IMAP? If so, you could install dovecot, setup a >proper Maildir on your server, and just drag/n/drop everything from >Kmail's local maildir into the server one? > > > >On 5/19/2010, "Jeff Lasman" <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: >>However I do have another problem. I have years of email in the kmail maildir >>setup. I really can't migrate it because migration utilities seem to lose all >>metadata. >_______________________________________________ >LinuxUsers mailing list >LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
