[Dovecot] Re: Support for Kmail maildir format

[Neal Becker]

Graham Cobb wrote:

> Has anyone looked into providing support in dovecot for Kmail folders?  I
> would like to make my Kmail folders (on my main desktop system) available
> to
> my other systems (including over a VPN when I am travelling).  Kmail is my
> main mail program and I have a lot of mail in a lot of folders, so I don't
> want to set up a separate IMAP service and move all the mail and folders.
> 
> Kmail's use of maildir seems to folow the basic maildir approach except
> that sub-folders are handled differently.
> 
> If you create a folder (say it is called ABC) in Kmail and start putting
> mail in it, Kmail creates a directory on the disk called ABC (not .ABC)
> and creates the cur, new and tmp folders within it to contain the email.
> 
> If you then create a subfolder of ABC (say it is called DEF, contained
> within the ABC folder), Kmail creates a directory on the disk called
> .ABC.directory and creates the DEF directory within that.
> 
> In other words, maildir directories are given the same name as the mail
> folder (with no leading dot) but sub-folders are contained in disk
> directories called .<folder-name>.directory.
> 
> I have taken a quick look at the dovecot code and am fairly sure this
> could be handled by a variant on the existing maildir code (e.g. by
> changes to
> maildir_fill_readdir and other routines).  Has anyone tried this?
> 
> Graham

I confirm exactly as you describe: This is from 
rpm -q kdepim
kdepim-3.5.0-1