Thursday 26 January 2006 18:35 skrev Graham Cobb:

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.

Then we have Evolution, which also uses maildirs but with yet another subfolder naming format (subfolders are created right beside the cur, new and tmp directories).

In both cases, the folder names are not UTF-7 encoded on disk, which is worth noticing.

-- Magnus Holmgren