http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/evolution/2003-January/024567.html

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Lev <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> X-No-Archive:
> Well, on that machine I pop the mail from the server and it's stored
> locally in the hierarchy of the ".evolution" folder inside huge
> files.  I know I can split the messages into sub-folders to reduce the
> size of the files, but I have many existing filters that move the
> messages into many folders already and it would be preferable for me
> to switch to the maildir-style.
>
>
>
> On Jul 14, 4:34 pm, Bryan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Lev,
> >
> > This really depends on your MTA. You need to configure your MTA to store
> > mails in the Maildir format instead of mbox. Mail gets stored in
> > $HOME/Maildir instead of /var/spool/mail. The client logs into the MTA
> > which drops the mail in the proper format and place. The client doesn't
> > determine the format...the server does.
> >
> > If this is not what you're talking about then I'm confused.
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> >
> >
> > Lev wrote:
> > > X-No-Archive:
> > > Greetings, I'm currently using the default mail client Evolution on a
> > > Fedora system.  On my system, Evolution stores the messages in mbox-
> > > style files that get pretty large, and my back-up utility ends up
> > > spending a lot of time copying the files even though there's only one
> > > new message.
> >
> > > I'm wondering if there is a way to convert and make Evolution work
> > > with a maildir-style storage system.  I understand that KMail works
> > > either way.
> >
> > > Any suggestion is appreciated.
> >
> > > Thank you for your interest.
> >
> > - --
> > A healthy diet includes Linux, Linux and more Linux.
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          Daniel

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