On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:27 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > I do not use any kind of proxy and I do use both kmail and thunderbird > with maildir mail over imap For some parts of this conversation, you can equate proxy and server. i.e. Directly accessing messages as local files with your mail client, versus indirectly (however that's being achieved). If you use IMAP, then the IMAP server's configuration determines how it stores your mail (maildir, mbox, or otherwise). Your mail client doesn't control that, at all, doesn't care, and doesn't even know. Your mail client may also keep a local cache, and it can do that however it likes. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines