Maildir Support

[Robert Widhopf-Fenk]

VM uses mboxes, i.e. a single file for storing all messages of a folder.

With attachments folders can grow quickly and slows down VM as it always reads the whole folder into a Emacs buffer.

With maildir only the the index/summary needs to fit into a Emacs buffer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

A blueprint has to be created and discussed.

[John Hein (xpqheqdvq4)]

Count a +1 vote here.
I manually split up my vm-primary-inbox and use vm-virtual-folder-alist, but true maildir support would be much appreciated. I realize that this would likely be quite a bit of work.

I think 'gnus' supports maildir. I wonder if any of that could be leveraged to add support in vm?

[Uday Reddy (reddyuday)]

John Hein writes:

> Count a +1 vote here.
> I manually split up my vm-primary-inbox and use vm-virtual-folder-alist, but
> true maildir support would be much appreciated. I realize that this would
> likely be quite a bit of work.
>
> I think 'gnus' supports maildir. I wonder if any of that could be
> leveraged to add support in vm?

Hi John, Good to know that you are interested. The plan right now is
to finish implementing the headers-only mode for IMAP first. I will
then look at maildir.

Cheers,
Uday