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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…
Ryan C. Thompson
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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".
rubo77
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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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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 /…
cnst
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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…
András Korn
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Safely install IMAP server on top of existing maildir collection?

I've read several questions here re: uploading a mail collection to an IMAP server or replicating a mail collection and then surfacing it via a local IMAP server. My situation is slightly different. I would like to place an IMAP server on top of my…
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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…
user164004
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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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Mutt/Neomutt with Maildir do not save sent email

Since I changed from mbox to Maildir format, mutt/neomutt does not save sent email in ~/.muttrc I have et mbox_type=Maildir set folder="~/Maildir" set mask="!^\\.[^.]" set mbox="~/Maildir" set spoolfile="~/Maildir" set…
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Reading Maildir files

How can I locally open a read-only Maildir backup archive in Windows in order to browse through e-mails, run keyword searches, filter/sort by date or recipient, extract attachments, display e-mails chronologically vs. as conversations etc.? Here is…
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