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

Martin (KDE) kde at fahrendorf.de
Thu Jan 5 10:16:39 GMT 2012


Am 05.01.2012 10:49, schrieb Anne Wilson:
> 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.

Hm

Anne, are you using imap and maildir (two different accounts) or are you
accessing the maildir you are using with your dovecot server in parallel
with thunderbird?. The second case is not the intended one.

Martin

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