Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.12.7 debian - Maildir directories name corruption

["Peter Von Kaehne" <refdoc gmx net>]

> Von: "Milan Crha" <mcrha redhat com>
> An: evolution-list gnome org
> Betreff: Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.12.7 debian - Maildir directories name corruption
>
> On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 09:52 +0100, Peter Von Kaehne wrote:
> > Now, on starting up Evolution will recreate its own hierarchy of 
> > folders with the same name, but starting with ._2E, will copy all 
> > mail over into that hierachy and eventually delete the starting 
> > folders.
>
>         Hi,
> Evolution's Maildir didn't support dots in folder names since the 
> beginning. This had been added later. This migration is done only if 
> the /path/to/maildir/root/..maildir++ file doesn't exists or denotes a 
> wrong version. Its content should look like "maildir++ 1" (quotes for 
> clarity only), where the '1' denotes the version number. This file is 
> created automatically on start.

Ok, adding this file fixed things. Many thanks!

Peter