On Friday 04 September 2009, Honza 'thingwath' Bartoš wrote: >On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Anne Wilson<annew@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Friday 04 September 2009 11:23:53 Christoph Höger wrote: >>> Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 10:43 +0100 schrieb Anne Wilson: >>> > On Thursday 03 September 2009 19:02:33 Christoph Höger wrote: >>> > > Thunderbird is not even able to read maildir. Again: We're not >>> > > talking about IMAP here (where this is a design principle) ;) >>> > >>> > This is nonsense. It may not be able to read your maildir files - due >>> > to your setup - but it can certainly read maildir mail. It does on my >>> > system, which uses maildir over imap. >>> >>> Thunderbird has no support for maildir. That's it. You can of course >>> proxy your mail through whatever protocol you want. But there is no >>> support of maildir! There is no "Maildir Mail" btw. if you use IMAP it's >>> IMAP and no Maildir is visible anymore. >>> >>> But that is way offtopic: The original problem is that you cannot use >>> KMail to work on a Maildir without killing the whole maildir. >> >> This is my last word on this. You are talking utter nonsense. I do not >> use any kind of proxy and I do use both kmail and thunderbird with >> maildir mail over imap. Your 'Maildir' reference shows that you refuse >> to understand that the format and the directory are totally unrelated. > >Unfortunately, it was you who misunderstood the problem. > >Thunderbird *does not* support Maildir format. There is a bug for it >(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308). It's 9 years >old, and still valid… (beats even KMail) > >KMail does support Maildir format, but it moves all mails to its own >internal storage. > Which, for some reason, you haven't found. FYI it will be to ~/Mail. The rest is up to you. >Setting up IMAP server and accessing the mail with this protocol >avoids both problems. But we would like to access Maildirs directly, >without IMAP, and without having all its content moved somewhere to >void. Which is exactly what KMail does, and the original question is: >How to avoid this behavior? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> To give of yourself, you must first know yourself. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
