At 18:18:05 on Thursday Thursday 11 November 2010, "Carlos E. R."
On Thursday, 2010-11-11 at 15:59 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
I don't think I would import my three years of archived Kmail messages, as someone mentioned in the thread, since they are accessible text files if and when I need them.
Actually, what I did was telling dovecot where my 15 years of emails were stored, and from there on I can read them directly, as files as you say, or via imap. Dovecot is surprisingly good at this.
I'm reading the Dovecot user's guide now.
In my case my mail was stored as mboxes from Pine, and it happens that dovecot uses the same dialect of mbox format as pine. As to maildir, which I think is the default for kmail, I don't know if it understand it so well.
It claims to read both. It says nothing about "understands so well".
The other thing I don't know, but I think not, is whether dovecot can store some folders as maildir and others as mbox or whatever.
Not only do I not know either, I don't even know how it decided that the Account I set up should be for mbox, because I don't see a question like that. It's possible that there was a question in the short configuration when the app was first started, which would imply that one is stuck with a format once the app is loaded initially. This wouldn't bother me much, if I could choose a format globally. One can't set up "Identities", as in Kmail (what was "Personalities" in Jstreet), which is inconvenient. I want e.g., different signatures for different purposes, and don't care to address my sons with my full name. For messages in Hebrew, I want a yet another signature. That is a great advantage of Kmail. I am sure I could make different accounts for that purpose, but that is clumsier, and I would wind up with a large number of accounts, and a correspondingly enormous number of folders, even before I make any optional folders for sorting different topics. I think Thunderbird is like that as well, if I remember. Claws is not very flexible, and I am not sure it is for me. Were it not for Akonadi, I would be content with Kmail; as it is, I am considering purchasing a voodoo doll, naming it Akonadi Programmer, and sticking pins in it daily. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org