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Re: To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)



On April 26, 2004 11:26 pm, Mike M wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:52:24PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:

> I went from kmail to mutt and noticed the support for folder hierarchy
> in kmail is "special" and has hidden files associated with it.  I was
> using mbox in kmail and I am now using Maildir in mutt.
>
> I created the illusion of folder hierarchy in mutt/Maildir by
> manipulating the subdir names from ~/Maildir:
>
> ~/Maildir
> ~/Maildir/folder1
> ~/Maildir/folder1.sub1
> ~/Maildir/folder1.sub2
> ~/Maildir/folder2
> ~/Maildir/folder2.sub1
> ~/Maildir/folder2.sub2
> ~/Maildir/folder2.sub3.sub1
> ~/Maildir/folder2.sub3.sub2
>
> This illusion gives me the same frame of reference I had with kmail
> and the mutt navigational aids work as advertised.

Does this mean you found a way of using mutt and kmail on the same maildir 
folder, with subfolders and sub-sub folders? That would be very nice - the 
ability to use a text-client when remote, and kmail when local. I'm still 
trying to figure out a good way of reading my maildir folders remotely 
without running over x-windows and without setting up my own IMAP server (I 
understand Courier-IMAP also recognizes the same file format as Kmail, so you 
can in theory set that up, and then remotely access your maildir files using 
any IMAP client).





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