From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0FA2615800A for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:52:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3C5CE0B0F; Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3178E0ADB for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host81-132-12-205.range81-132.btcentralplus.com ([81.132.12.205] helo=[192.168.1.99]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1qPfgU-0008j6-3M for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2023 09:52:22 +0100 Message-ID: <1905666e-d3a2-0720-d85c-ddd7a2a7336d@youngman.org.uk> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 09:52:21 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients Content-Language: en-GB To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <2313990.ElGaqSPkdT@wstn> <20230728193702.34c49410@raph.localdomain> From: Wols Lists In-Reply-To: <20230728193702.34c49410@raph.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ca7296aa-b8db-4532-a587-b46e696b6fa6 X-Archives-Hash: 6b97a140ca1c44db4120f28d32b474b5 On 29/07/2023 03:37, Bryan Gardiner wrote: > User of Claws with a local maildir here. One mail per file always > felt safer to me. If you do want to keep using maildir, > net-mail/dovecot provides IMAP access to ~/.maildir out of the box, > and I've found this combination to be reliable. Just a tip which bit me when I first installed dovecot ... The master config file actually chain-loads a local config file, make sure you use it. I edited the master file directly, so of course the first update overwrote and trashed it ... Cheers, Wol