On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:59 +0100, Michal Janda wrote: > On 10/30/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > -- > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > 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. > -- 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. -- ======================================================================= If you're careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
