KMail archive

[Timothy Murphy]

Armelius Cameron wrote:

>> I have a folder ~/Maildir/Archive/ where I have put some ancient email,
>> eg the folder ~/Maildir/Archive/In-02/ is in maildir format
>> with sub-folders cur,new,tmp (the last two being empty).
> 
> Well, if you want it to be accessible via IMAP it needs more than that.
> You will have to follow the maildir format for dovecot. In my case, I
> have: ~/Maildir.Archive. I think with dovecot IMAP sub-folder is
> represented as dot. So if you want something like this to show in Kmail:
> 
> Archive
> In-02 (this contains the mails)
> 
> Then I think you should have something like this:
> ~/Maildir.Archive.In-02/{cur, new, tmp}
> Now you can put all the mail (one file for each mail under:
> ~/Maildir.Archive.In-02/cur/

Thanks for the advice, which I shall follow.

I must say, it seems rather complicated for what must be
a fairly common requirement - to archive old mail.

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