[kdepim-users] dimap, where are mails stored locally and how to back up?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 5 09:49:21 GMT 2012


On 01/04/2012 06:03 PM, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> You seem to be using IMAP. Where do you see a problem with migrating to 
> another client?
> 
> The account type formerly known as disconnected IMAP is nowadays just a 
> subtype of IMAP (with cache policy "cache everything"). I'm not sure 
> whether Akonadi is supposed to store everything in its database or 
> whether the mail contents is supposed to be stored in files.
> 
FWIW, I run IMAP.  I set up Thunderbird by simply pointing it to
~/Maildir, just as I did with KMail. No problem whatsoever. I did have
to install several add-ons to get the functionality I'm used to in
KMail, but everything I needed was available.

Anne
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