Re: [Evolution] How to use maildir as storage format?

[Internaut at Large <dkap mailhost haven org>]

Greetings,

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 07:41 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Le lundi 04 aoÃt 2008 Ã 06:36 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan a Ãcrit :
> >   
> > > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 10:36 -0500, Miguel Angel CaÃedo wrote:
> > >     
> > > > El vie, 01-08-2008 a las 00:36 +0200, Philipp Riegger escribiÃ:
> > > >       
> > > > > Having a file with about 1 GB is not that robust, and almost all
> > > > > incremental backup methods store the new version of this file every
> > > > > time.
> > > > >         
> > > > This two simple arguments should be enought to consider maildir as
> > > > default for evolution
> > > >       
> > > I don't know about default, but it should certainly be supported. I
> > > never understood why it was dropped in the first place.
> > >     
> >
> > It isn't dropped, it works fine (apart from specific bugs).
> >
> >   
> Where would one find instruction(s) for configuring use of maildir???

Remote: you set it up with/on your server.

Locally, you can only use it as a local store, not for your default
inbox, though, as far as I can tell.

EDIT->PREFERENCES->ADD

On the second screen, it allows you to select the type of mailbox.
Maildir is one of them.

-dkap