[kdepim-users] Maildir Backend for Akonadi?

[Martin (KDE)]

> Am Dienstag, 9. August 2011 schrieb Georg Wittenburg:
>> Hi Andras,
>>

>>
>> My local mail cache is part of the data that I include in regular
>> backups. I prefer all my important data (such the mail contained
>> in the mail cache) to be in a format that is simple and
>> straightforward, and will be readable in ten years time. Thus, I'd
>> prefer to have my local cache in maildir format rather than the
>> Akonadi DB format.
>>
>> Note that I don't want a second cache, I merely want my main cache
>> to be in maildir format as it used to be with KMail1. I'm aware
>> that there is an option to archive folders in KMail2, however,
>> this is quite tedious as compared to simply creating a TGZ of my
>> $HOME folder.
>>
>> While I generally applaud the work on KMail2/Akonadi and consider
>> it to be a great idea, I'm afraid that the ability to create
>> backups and know that the file formats are simple and widely
>> supported is quite an essential feature for me.
>>
>> Now, from your mail I take it that KMail2/Akonadi don't support
>> maildir as backing store for the cache. I'd thus appreciate any
>> suggestions on how I can achieve my long term storage goals while
>> continuing to use this software.
> 
> I think you misunderstood something. With kmail1 there was no maildir 
> sized cache. The cache was a single DB file per folder and it only 
> caches header file stuff (search for *.index and *.index.ids files). 
> Mails itself are stored in maildir (if setup is set up to do so).
> 
> For disconnected IMAP this may be different, but then it is still a 
> cache. It will be overwritten with the next sync attempt.

OK, you ARE using disconnected IMAP. I have to read a little more carefully.

If it is for backup, why don't you copy the imap data over to a local
imap server? There are tools like imapsync and similar to handle this. I
set up a little server at home for this (ok, not only this but all kind
of sharing). And dovecot is easy to set up and uses maildir internally.

Regards

Martin
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