On 02/02/2011 09:22 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm using maildir format throughout, as I mentioned.
Everything is stored in ~/Maildir/ ,
with folders like ~/Maildir/.In-08 .
The file ~/Maildir/subscriptions contains entries, eg In-08,
exactly corresponding to the folders I see in KMail (minus the dots).
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).
But I see no way of listing the email in this folder in KMail.
I can view an individual email in the folder by "kmail --msg<filename>"
but this is impractical as there are dozens of files in the folder.
seems maildir don't supports physical subdirectories at first so you
cannot have a maildir mailbox under ~/Maildir/Archive/
you need to create a dir directly in ~/Maildir/.Archive.In-02/
if you need a maildir subfolder of another as in your example need a
dovecot 1.1+ and modify the configuration
more info in:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir
I looked quickly at the dovecot documentation you mention,
but didn't find anything helpful.
I'll have a closer look at it though.
Basically, to re-phrase my original query:
How can one "archive" old email in dovecot/KMail
so that it is not listed by a KMail client
but can nevertheless be accessed without too much difficulty?
well I don't use kmail but under a imap server the client is more or
less irrelevant you only need subscribe and unsubscribe the ancient
mailboxes when needed them in your email client
Gabriel