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Questions tagged [maildir]

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Can I delete or move mail files from maildir cur folder?

I ended up with a cur folder with over 350,000 files. So many that I can't find a mail program to manage them. Tried horde on the same server and it gives an error. Can I delete or move some of those files manually (shell)? Or would that create…
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How to make postfix create maildir?

How do you make postfix create maildir folders automatically for all users? I have these two lines in postfix main.cf, which supposed do create maildir folder after the first mail but it is not working. What am I missing? home_mailbox = Maildir…
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How can I apply my procmail filters to my maildir inbox?

Last night I subscribed to a mailing list, and discovered this morning that my procmail filter didn't apply to many of the mailing list messages. Now I have loads of less-important mailing list messages interspersed with my more-important work…
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Thunderbird: deleted emails are still in local IMAP folder

I am using Thunderbird + IMAP. Thunderbird caches messages locally in: .icedove/asdfgh.default/ImapMail/mail.example.com/ For each IMAP folder, there are files Folder and Folder.msf. I have noticed, when I delete an email with large attachment, and…
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Email client that understands both HTML and maildir

I'm using Mutt as my main email client, but I'm looking for another one for my work email (because of HTML email). I need one that can handle my existing Maildir email, to be able to switch between Mutt and the new one without having to…
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Synchronize IMAP to maildir folders - fast and complete solution with IDLE support?

This is likely to be borderline subjective, but I am searching for good alternatives for command line IMAP to maildir clients: Currently I am using offlineimap, but the docs are lacking, and support is vaning, what is a good alternative to…
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accessing Maildir locally with Mutt and remotely over IMAP simultaneously

I have Postfix + Maildir + Dovecot + IMAP on my mailserver. I am accessing my mailbox remotely over IMAP with one or more clients (Thunderbird). Additionally, on the server I have mutt configured for local (Maildir) access. When I am connected over…
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How do I set up alpine to read local Unix generated mail

Linux delivers mail to home directory: /home/linker/Maildir under which are 3 directories new, cur, tmp. When I type mail I get mail: /home/linker/Maildir/: Is a directory, which is not useful. I have installed alpine but can't get it access the…
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Dovecot ignores settings for mailboxes

I have set up Dovecot on my Postfix mailserver. My mailserver is using Maildir format: home_mailbox = Mail/inbox/ A user's Mail directory looks like this: $HOME/Mail/inbox $HOME/Mail/drafts $HOME/Mail/sent $HOME/Mail/trash I have set up mailboxes…
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How to migrate data from server to server with as little downtime as possible?

I have a server running dovecot using the maildir format with a fairly large userbase (10k users or so) with each user having around a GB quota. The actual mail directories are stored on a separate storage system that our email server mounts via…
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syncing two maildirs

I have a server that I use to frequently get email from Google using offlineimap. the email is stored in a maildir format on this server. What tool can I use to sync this maildir with the local maildir that is on my latop? I've tried getmail but…
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Change existing dovecot maildir installation from m-UTF7 charset to UTF8 to avoid breaking TAB

In an existing dovecot installation with many pre-existing folders using regional characters I would like to change m-UTF7 (.&AMk-l&AOk-ments envoy&AOk-s) foldernames to UTF8 (.Éléments envoyés). Among other reasons my main reason is folders like…
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Mutt and maildir format

I am trying to set up mutt to use maildir format. I have the following in my .muttrc file: set mbox_type=Maildir set folder="~/.mail/" set mbox="~/.mail/" set spoolfile="~/.mail/" set record="~/.mail/sent" set postponed="~/.mail/drafts" In my…
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Display name and/or path of currently viewed email in mutt/neomutt

I'm using neomutt (an updated fork of mutt) as my CLI MUA (read: mail reading software in the terminal) and have all my messages synced offline using isync/mbsync and stored in the maildir-format on my Debian Stable system. Sometimes I want to reply…
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Maildir and mailutils?

I want to use the mailutils app on a install of Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS with a Maildir format, but every time I run the mail command, the system looks in /var/mail/user, instead of the Maildir directory in the home folder. I'm aware that setting the MAIL…
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