[plug] Recommended local mail access method

[Timothy White]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

>Timothy White wrote:
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>>It appears that IMAP has different concepts of folders and mailboxes 
>>than Thunderbird. How can I easily create a new folder (In Squirrelmail 
>>or Thunderbird) so that I can have subfolders? All the 'folders' I 
>>create become mailboxes
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>Could you explain what you mean by 'folders' and 'mailboxes'?  I
>generally use those terms interchangeably.
>
Under Thunderbird they are the same thing. Under IMAP (using mbox) a 
folder contains only mailboxes and mailboxes contain only emails.

> Also, it would help if you
>told us which IMAP server you were using and which format you're
>storing your mail in (if your IMAP server supports more than one --
>dovecot does, for instance).
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Dovecot with mbox. Is there and easy way to move over to maildir?
Tim
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