On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:47 +0000, Matt Davey wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 15:49 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:59 +0100, Michal Janda wrote: > [...] > > > 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. > > The 'MH' backend for evolution stores each mail as separate files. > There are definitely some rough edges (e.g. a bug was introduced that > prevented creation of a new folder when using the MH backend. This got > fixed, but is evidence that there aren't many users using evolution this > way). > > That said, it's been working well for me for years. My main reason for > using it is that I can very quickly scan and read mail remotely using > the mh command line tools. > > Matt > > Matt Davey The two most common things in the Universe are > mcdavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx hydrogen and stupidity. -- Harlan Ellison > Ok, I'lll bite. What is the MH backend for evolution? I was unaware that evlution can save mail in maildir format. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
