Matt Davey wrote:
I collect my messages from my pop server and store them locally. So I have one 'account' configured as a pop server. I have another 'account' configured as an 'mh' "server", which uses local directories to store messages, one file per email. I have incoming filter rules that take the pop mail and puts the mail into appropriate mh folders.
Michal Janda asked:
I am sorry, but I do not understand well. You download mails from that account to local system by fetchmail or something like that?
Matt replied:
No, evolution collects the mail.
<disclaimer> there are some pretty bad bugs in evolution support for maildir/mh at the moment (2.8.0). Expect some issues... </disclaimer>
In which case, one may well want *not* to rely on Evolution for storing mail at all. One option is to use fetchmail (or something similar) to download the e-mail, store it in a normal maildir directory, and use Dovecot to serve it up via IMAP.
Hope this helps,
James.