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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: kmail backend for MH?
From:       Carsten Burghardt <cb () magic-shop ! de>
Date:       2002-05-30 9:36:01
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On Thursday 30 May 2002 05:39, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> One of my co-workers is an avid Kmail user, and suggested
> I mail this question here. I'm an MH and exmh user, and
> I want to find a replacement for exmh that still uses the
> MH backend. The mailers I've looked at that claim to support
> the MH format either support it for their own folders only
> (evolution, balsa) or else support the format except for
> the minor detail of the sequences file, which identifies
> things like the unseen messages (sylpheed). My co-worker
> said that Kmail had some sort of way of supporting multiple
> backends - what would be involved in making a backend that
> supported MH mailboxes correctly?

Basically you need you write a folder-class (subclass of kmfolder) that 
supports it. Currently we have mbox, maildir and imap.

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Carsten Burghardt
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