On Thursday 20 May 2010 11:22:14 am David Kaiser wrote: > 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?
It's not so much the directory format than it is the index system. And I don't know if the index system will work or not. > 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...) That's not the biggest issue; though it would be tedious to reorder the directory format's, it's not necessarily hard. The problem is not knowing what's going to happen to the indexes. Thanks! > 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? I could easily set up IMAP, using either a mailstore in my datacenter or locally; the problem is what happens if the indexes don't work. If I delete them and let systems start over I believe I lose a lot of metadata. I've already started to go through my mailboxes to figure out what metadata I really need. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
