maildirs, dovecot, mail client help

[wade at wadesmart.com]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: maildirs, dovecot, mail client help
> From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> Date: Thu, November 02, 2006 9:16 am
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> Todd Slater wrote:
>
> > On 11/2/06, wade at wadesmart.com <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
> >
> > You're using Dovecot because you want to access your mail from other
> > machines?
> >
> > First thing I'd worry about is getting Evolution to see the converted
> > mails. You added a new account, chose local maildirs as the type, and
> > pointed it to the top level of your maildirs? On my system I used
> > /home/todd/Mail, on others I've use /home/me/Maildir, you can use
> > whatever you want, but you need to point Evolution to that top-level
> > directory.
>
> No you don't.  You want evolution pointing to the IMAP server.  Once you put
> the mails into IMAP, you really shouldn't be trying to access them except
> _through_ IMAP.
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> derek
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11022006 2021 GMT-6

I noticed that one of the folders that should have about 200 email only
has about 10. I looked at the folder and it only sees the email message
type mail and not the plain text documents.

Wade