On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:18:30AM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Just to be clear what I am saying. > Suppose you have a standard maildir setup on computer X, > with directories ~/Maildir/inbox/[cur,new,tmp]/ , > ~/Maildir/family/[cur,new,tmp]/ , etc. > > Suppose now you start dovecot IMAP on computer X. > Then you will not be able to see the family folder on computer Y, > running as an IMAP client, ie with an IMAP kmail account > pointing to computer X. > > If I am right, you have to re-organise and re-name the folders on X > if you want to see them on Y. > And if you do this, you can no longer seem them on X with kmail. Dovecot has both mbox and Maildir format support. But as soon as you have an e-mail klant using a non-supported mailbox format *or* that is storing mail folders in a supported format but in a non-standard place, tour theory applies, yes. See also <http://wiki.dovecot.org/> for more info about this all. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
