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Re: Export/sync nmh folders to IMAP server


From: Michael Richardson
Subject: Re: Export/sync nmh folders to IMAP server
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:34:59 -0400

Ken Hornstein <kenh@pobox.com> wrote:
    > I am continually confused why anyone thinks Maildir is a good idea for
    > mailbox storage; I think it is fine for a _maildrop_ (since that was
    > it's intended purpose), but every time I've seen it used as a backend

I'm not arguing with you.
I just want to duct tape together a few hockey sticks and go toboganing.

    > Also, I thought cyrus-imapd uses it's own internal backend for mail
    > storage and Maildir isn't one of them.  Looks like the list of storage
    > types is here:

    > 
https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/concepts/deployment/databases.html#storage-types

    > You might be thinking of Dovecot which _does_ use Maildir as a backend
    > storage, but my understanding is that Dovecot has the filename metadata
    > problem mentioned above.

Oh. Mumble. Yeah. that one :-)


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