[Dovecot] Migration woes from tpop mbox to dovecot maildir

Magnus Holmgren holmgren at lysator.liu.se
Sat Sep 15 10:26:45 EEST 2007


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On Friday 14 September 2007 20:13, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 9/14/2007, Timothy Murphy (gayleard at eircom.net) wrote:
> > Should I actually have an IMAP (or rather IMAPS) Account on kmail on
> > the server? [The kmail documentation on this point is not clear, at
> > least to me.]
> >
> > I can see my email with kmail on my server OK, but do not see it on
> > my laptop, with an IMAPS account specified.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, KMail can read maildirs directly (no IMAP server
> required).

Although KMail uses Maildir as its default mailbox format, it doesn't follow 
the Maildir++ specification. Instead, folder names are encoded with UTF-8 (or 
even the current LC_CTYPE) and subfolders are stored in .<folder>.directory. 
The layouts are obviously not very compatible.

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Magnus Holmgren        holmgren at lysator.liu.se
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