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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:38 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 12:42 -0500, Miguel Angel CaÃedo wrote:
> > I know that there is some kind of maildir support in order to
> > configure an incoming account from a maildir.
> >
> > But I want to have my regular pop3 account to store all my files in a
> > maildir, how can I do that?
> >
> > Email is my main tool at work and I send and receive a lot of
> > messages.
>
> > I switched to evolution when I switched to ubuntu, but my inbox in
> > evolution gets some kind of des-synchrnozation with the index, very
> > often... My experience is that maildir is more robust.
>
> This was possible in the not too distant past (maybe two years ago), but
> is not longer possible.  I used evolution successfully with folders in
> maildir instead of mbox form for at about a year, till the capability
> was removed.  Does anyone know how difficult it would be to restore it?
>
> The code for handling maildir folders doesn't seem to be in the current
> source.  I downloaded the source for the current version, namely:
>       evolution-2.22.3.1-1.fc9.src.rpm
> but grepping for maildir, namely:
>       find `ls | grep -v help` -type f | xargs fgrep -i maildir
> didn't show anything interesting.

There are *two* essential RPMs for Evo (plus several optional ones).
evolution.<version>.rpm and evolution-data-server.<version>.rpm. I'm
pretty sure the maildir stuff would be in the latter if it's anywhere.

poc