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THUFIR HAWAT
Nov 17, 2012, 3:00:48 AM11/17/12
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Do I need an IMAP mail store? What kind?
How do you get thunderbird to read maildir?
"Many mail readers do not support Maildir but do support remote access formats such as IMAP. Since there are several IMAP mail stores that support Maildir, any mail reader that supports IMAP such as Microsoft Outlook, Pine, or Mozilla Thunderbird can be used to access Maildir folders."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
My maildir is as so:
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ ll Maildir/new/
total 20
drwx------ 2 thufir thufir 4096 Nov 16 18:56 ./
drwx------ 6 thufir thufir 4096 Nov 16 19:21 ../
-rw------- 1 thufir thufir 410 Nov 16 11:57 1353095866.M305477P3932.dur,S=410,W=422
-rw------- 1 thufir thufir 424 Nov 16 17:20 1353115248.M841336P2990.dur,S=424,W=436
-rw------- 1 thufir thufir 445 Nov 16 18:56 1353121003.M187706P3838.dur,S=445,W=457
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ nl Maildir/new/1353121003.M187706P3838.dur\,S\=445\,W\=457
1 Return-Path: <thu...@example.net>
2 X-Original-To: thufir@localhost
3 Delivered-To: thufir@localhost
4 Received: from me (localhost [127.0.0.1])
5 by dur.bounceme.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 43D6F2A07C1
6 for <thufir@localhost>; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:55:55 -0800 (PST)
7 subject: to evolution mail
8 Message-Id: <2012111702561...@dur.bounceme.net>
9 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:55:55 -0800 (PST)
10 From: thu...@example.net
11 we'll see if this goes through.
thufir@dur:~$
thanks,
Thufir
How do you get thunderbird to read maildir?
"Many mail readers do not support Maildir but do support remote access formats such as IMAP. Since there are several IMAP mail stores that support Maildir, any mail reader that supports IMAP such as Microsoft Outlook, Pine, or Mozilla Thunderbird can be used to access Maildir folders."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
My maildir is as so:
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ ll Maildir/new/
total 20
drwx------ 2 thufir thufir 4096 Nov 16 18:56 ./
drwx------ 6 thufir thufir 4096 Nov 16 19:21 ../
-rw------- 1 thufir thufir 410 Nov 16 11:57 1353095866.M305477P3932.dur,S=410,W=422
-rw------- 1 thufir thufir 424 Nov 16 17:20 1353115248.M841336P2990.dur,S=424,W=436
-rw------- 1 thufir thufir 445 Nov 16 18:56 1353121003.M187706P3838.dur,S=445,W=457
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ nl Maildir/new/1353121003.M187706P3838.dur\,S\=445\,W\=457
1 Return-Path: <thu...@example.net>
2 X-Original-To: thufir@localhost
3 Delivered-To: thufir@localhost
4 Received: from me (localhost [127.0.0.1])
5 by dur.bounceme.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 43D6F2A07C1
6 for <thufir@localhost>; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:55:55 -0800 (PST)
7 subject: to evolution mail
8 Message-Id: <2012111702561...@dur.bounceme.net>
9 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:55:55 -0800 (PST)
10 From: thu...@example.net
11 we'll see if this goes through.
thufir@dur:~$
thanks,
Thufir
Ralph Fox
Nov 17, 2012, 3:05:54 PM11/17/12
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:48 -0800 (PST), THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> Do I need an IMAP mail store? What kind?
> How do you get thunderbird to read maildir?
>
> "Many mail readers do not support Maildir but do support remote access formats such as IMAP. Since there are several IMAP mail stores that support Maildir, any mail reader that supports IMAP such as Microsoft Outlook, Pine, or Mozilla Thunderbird can be used to access Maildir folders."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
What the article appears to be suggesting is
> Do I need an IMAP mail store? What kind?
> How do you get thunderbird to read maildir?
>
> "Many mail readers do not support Maildir but do support remote access formats such as IMAP. Since there are several IMAP mail stores that support Maildir, any mail reader that supports IMAP such as Microsoft Outlook, Pine, or Mozilla Thunderbird can be used to access Maildir folders."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
1. You run your own IMAP server which supports Maildir.
( For example, "Binc IMAP"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bincimap/
http://freecode.com/projects/bincimap )
2. You add a new IMAP account to your mail reader (e.g. Thunderbird)
and set the new account's server to be your own IMAP server (e.g.
your running copy of Binc IMAP).
3. To access the Maildir folders, you access this new IMAP account's
folders in your mail reader (e.g. Thunderbird).
If you do this, Thunderbird will read the maildir indirectly, not
directly. Thunderbird communicates with 'Binc IMAP' using the IMAP
protocol, and 'Binc IMAP' reads the maildir for Thunderbird.
> My maildir is as so:
>
> thufir@dur:~$
> thufir@dur:~$ ll Maildir/new/
> total 20
> drwx------ 2 thufir thufir 4096 Nov 16 18:56 ./
> drwx------ 6 thufir thufir 4096 Nov 16 19:21 ../
> -rw------- 1 thufir thufir 410 Nov 16 11:57 1353095866.M305477P3932.dur,S=410,W=422
> -rw------- 1 thufir thufir 424 Nov 16 17:20 1353115248.M841336P2990.dur,S=424,W=436
> -rw------- 1 thufir thufir 445 Nov 16 18:56 1353121003.M187706P3838.dur,S=445,W=457
> thufir@dur:~$
> thufir@dur:~$ nl Maildir/new/1353121003.M187706P3838.dur\,S\=445\,W\=457
> 1 Return-Path: <thu...@example.net>
> 2 X-Original-To: thufir@localhost
> 3 Delivered-To: thufir@localhost
> 4 Received: from me (localhost [127.0.0.1])
> 5 by dur.bounceme.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 43D6F2A07C1
> 6 for <thufir@localhost>; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:55:55 -0800 (PST)
> 7 subject: to evolution mail
> 8 Message-Id: <2012111702561...@dur.bounceme.net>
> 9 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:55:55 -0800 (PST)
> 10 From: thu...@example.net
>
> 11 we'll see if this goes through.
> thufir@dur:~$
Kind regards
Ralph
THUFIR HAWAT
Nov 17, 2012, 3:53:20 PM11/17/12
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On Saturday, 17 November 2012 12:06:00 UTC-8, Ralph Fox wrote:
[..]
thanks for clarifying. I though it sounded like that, but was hoping thunderbird would just do this out of the box. Ok, not that big a deal.
In the aptitude package manager for Ubuntu I see Courier, Cyrus and others, but no binc (maybe it's in another repo).
-Thufir
[..]
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
>
>
>
> What the article appears to be suggesting is
>
>
>
> 1. You run your own IMAP server which supports Maildir.
>
> ( For example, "Binc IMAP"
[..]
>
>
>
> What the article appears to be suggesting is
>
>
>
> 1. You run your own IMAP server which supports Maildir.
>
> ( For example, "Binc IMAP"
thanks for clarifying. I though it sounded like that, but was hoping thunderbird would just do this out of the box. Ok, not that big a deal.
In the aptitude package manager for Ubuntu I see Courier, Cyrus and others, but no binc (maybe it's in another repo).
-Thufir
Ralph Fox
Nov 18, 2012, 5:50:46 AM11/18/12
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:53:20 -0800 (PST), THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 November 2012 12:06:00 UTC-8, Ralph Fox wrote:
> [..]
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
>>
>> What the article appears to be suggesting is
>>
>> 1. You run your own IMAP server which supports Maildir.
>> ( For example, "Binc IMAP"
> [..]
>
> thanks for clarifying. I though it sounded like that, but was hoping thunderbird would just do this out of the box. Ok, not that big a deal.
For Thunderbird specifically, you may be interested in this discussion thread:
> On Saturday, 17 November 2012 12:06:00 UTC-8, Ralph Fox wrote:
> [..]
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
>>
>> What the article appears to be suggesting is
>>
>> 1. You run your own IMAP server which supports Maildir.
>> ( For example, "Binc IMAP"
> [..]
>
> thanks for clarifying. I though it sounded like that, but was hoping thunderbird would just do this out of the box. Ok, not that big a deal.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.support.thunderbird/9j7ZEG9KHaM/W0hgr5nmDOgJ
> In the aptitude package manager for Ubuntu I see Courier, Cyrus and others, but no binc (maybe it's in another repo).
http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/
(Binc IMAP is not the only option.)
--
Kind regards
Ralph
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