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Questions tagged [maildir]

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How to make Thunderbird understand local .maildir folder?

It's been some (relatively short) time since Thunderbird finally obtained maildir storage support (I'm using Thunderbird 38.1.0 at the time of this writing). Unfortunately it appears it only applies to how Thunderbird itself stores mail internally,…
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Can Dovecot IMAP automatically create Maildir folders for new (virtual) users?

everyone. I am learning to set up a dovecot home IMAP server using a virtual Ubuntu 12.04 machine. My intention is eventually to have a home server that uses POP3 to take email from several addresses and remove them from my ISP's servers, while…
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Can I save space in a Maildir by hard-linking identical message files?

Obviously, the answer to the question in the title is yes. But I really want to know if I can do it without breaking anything. I am using offlineimap to back up my Gmail account to a Maildir on my local computer. Since Gmail lets you easily assign…
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What is "Unix Mailspool (Movemail)"?

Thunderbird only offers to create another account in the format "Unix Mailspool (Movemail)". What is this format? It looks different from "Maildir".
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Backing up an imap mbox with git, is it a good idea?

I'm trying to setup a new mail server for my personal use, and I want to do it better than all the prior times. One thing that has always concerned me is backing up my inbox and other folders. In the past, I've used POP3 with Mozilla App Suite /…
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view two maildirs as one in mutt/neomutt

Simplifying another question about merging multiple email accounts: I have two maildirs. How do I get a combined listing of both - either in Mutt or NeoMutt? This means where the messages are sorted together in a single view as if the two maildirs…
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Can I use Opera Mail as just a MUA?

Can I use Opera Mail as just a MUA for my mailbox in the Maildir format? I use separated MRA (fetchmail + filter on procmail). MRA receive my mail from server to local mailbox in Maildir format. I need MUA for reading and work with my mail. So far I…
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Move spam detected mails to users "Spam" subdirectory

My mailserver setup is based on Das Postfix Buch ( from an good german IT consultant agency ) and the ISPmail Tutorials. In short I use virtuals ( maildir ) with MySQL config backend and amavisd-new ( v2.7 ) on Debian Squeeze. Mails are stored in…
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How can I transfer emails from KMail 4 to Thunderbird 9?

I'm trying to transfer the locally stored emails from KMail 4 on an old computer to Thunderbird 9 on a new computer. I'm aware that KMail uses maildir format and Thunderbird uses some variant of mbox. So I thought I should be able to convert the…
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Archiving old mail from IMAP to local disk in batch mode

I have an IMAP account with limited space. I would like to archive "old" mails to local storage, and I want to do it automatically (from cron) on my Linux system. I still want to keep the latest mail (up to a year or so) on the IMAP server. What is…
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Dovecot- how to use virtual "All" and virtual "Flagged" mailbox (15-mailboxes.conf)

Using Dovecot with a Maildir set-up, I am trying to get the virtual "All" and virtual "Flagged" mailboxes to work. I have gotten all the other typical mailboxes working (Archive, Trash etc...) The information here…
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Bulk delete text/html parts of email messages

I would like to reduce the size of my mail archive by deleting text/html parts of multipart/alternative messages. I can do this individually in mutt by opening each message, but it gets tedious. Is there a way to do it in bulk? Any or all three of…
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Marking mails as read from maildrop script

I use a maildrop script to sort my mails directly on the mail server into folders and I would like it to mark certain unnecessary mails as read. Unfortunately maildrop does not seem to have a command for that. Right now I use this line to rename…
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Is there any good maildir mail notifier for GNOME3?

I'm looking for a maildir capable mail notifier, a'la biff/xbiff, but for GNOME3. I found this, but it gets its settings from Evolution, and I am not using Evolution - I'd simply like it to watch the maildirs I download with offlineimap. The ability…
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creating an offline searchable email archive for multiple accounts

I want to create an offline mail archive that I can view and search. The archive will include both, Inbox and Sent. My main OS is Windows XP 32-bit (I'm a laggard but I plan to upgrade to 7, 8, or 10, and in 64-bit) so the software that I'll use to…
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