The ideal mail client?

[Sharpe, Sam J]

2009/8/1 Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>:
> On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:21 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
>> You only need to set your server setting (where you normally set pop or
>> imap) to "email in maildir format" setting. That works great for me ;)
>
> This seems to mean that if I go to
>        Edit->Preferences->Mail Accounts->Receiving Email
> and then change the Server Type in the pull down menu from POP (as it is
> now) to Maildir, then Evolution will continue to fetch my email from the
> appropriate pop server, and then store it all in folders of maildir
> format.
>
> I don't think this is likely.

You are correct - evolution is not magic.

> I suspect that what you *really* mean is
> that if some other program (say fetchmail) downloads email from the pop
> server and stores it in maildir style folders, then Evolution can manage
> it properly.  Is this correct?  If so, do you know any program to
> convert my folders, now in mbox format, into maildir format?

http://untroubled.org/mbox2maildir



-- 
Sam