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From:       Ralph Jones <ralph.jones () web ! de>
Date:       2003-06-04 9:25:07
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------- Additional Comments From ralph.jones@web.de  2003-06-04 11:25 -------
I think this is because kmail uses a non-standard maildir format.  I documented
this at http://www.kde-forum.org/viewtopic.php?t=681.

To repeat what I found:
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With the latest release of kmail, I created a new folder called "testnested". I
then created a new subfolder called "nested". I copied a mail into each of
these. This is the output of find|grep nested:

./testnested
./testnested/cur
./testnested/cur/1053675298.31081.bqQx:2,S
./testnested/new
./testnested/tmp
./.testnested.index.sorted
./.testnested.index.ids
./.testnested.index
./.testnested.directory
./.testnested.directory/testnested
./.testnested.directory/testnested/cur
./.testnested.directory/testnested/cur/1053675302.31081.J4Hc:2,S
./.testnested.directory/testnested/new
./.testnested.directory/testnested/tmp
./.testnested.directory/.testnested.index.ids
./.testnested.directory/.testnested.index

So it seems that the contents of the subfolders are put into the
.<folder>.directory/<subfolder> directory.

This does not seem to be the same as the format describe in
http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html, which states: "Folders are additional
subdirectories in the maildir whose names begin with a period: such as .Drafts
or .Sent." They also describe a flat format for storing sub-sub folders.

Is the site I quoted a recognised standard?
I don't think the kmail format compatible with mutt with regard to subfolders
(maybe mutt can't handle them at all?)
Does procmail write to subfolders in the same format as kmail?

What I would like to do is use a combination of fetchmail, postfix and procmail
as well as kmail to get mail from various accounts and put them in one maildir.
This mail should be readable from kmail and mutt. Shouldn't be that hard.
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Looking through the bug list and the mailing list, I notice that there appear to
be some quite "vibrant" discussions going on, but none of them seem to have
addressed this particular issue of different maildir formats.
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