On 10/30/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 17:11 +0100, Michal Janda wrote:
> Hi,
> is there any chance how to use evolution and store mail at
maildir,
> not mbox? I am downloading several mail list via pop3 and
the mbox
> file is getting too big.
>
> Michal
I am not sure what you are asking. In evolution you can store
mail from
each source in a different folder. So exactly what is your
problem that
you are trying to fix.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>
There are at least two different ways how to store mail. One is mbox
and other is maildir. In brief:
mbox (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox) - all messages are in one
huge file, so if you have at your mail klient Inbox, Work, Friends and
Password folders, at disk you have for each one big file. This is how
e.g. Thunderbird store mail.
maildir (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir) - each mail message is
in a single file, so if you have the same mail layout as I described
you have inbox folder and inside plenty of files, the same for Work,
Friends, passwords etc.
If I remember well, in Pegasus mail when you create new mail account,
You can choose which format for storing mail is used.
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All what you say above is true. Are you saying you want to have separate
files for each mail message. If so I don't think ecolution can do that.
kmail can as can other mail clients.
In my opinion mbox format is the the better way but YMMD.
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