# Maildir++ Plugin for Sylpheed-Claws

Christoph
Hohmann
B.Sc

    reboot@gmx.ch

2003-2004
Christoph Hohmann

## What's the Maildir++ Plugin?

The Maildir++ plugin for Sylpheed-Claws provides direct access to Maildir++ Mailboxes used by IMAP-Servers like Courier-IMAP, BincIMAP or Dovecot without having all the IMAP overhead of a connection to 'localhost'.

## Requirements

- Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.10claws48

- Berkeley DB 4.1

Newer versions can work too. If you use a precompiled package, you might have to install an additional development-package.

## Install

Run the `configure` script. You need the Sylpheed-Claws includes and pkg-config files that are usually installed, when you install Sylpheed-Claws.

After the `configure` script you can build the plugin with `make` and install it with `make install`. It should install plugins in the location where the other plugins are usually `$PREFIX/lib/sylpheed-claws`. But you can load the plugin from any directory, also from the `src/.libs` directory in the source directory, if you don't want to install the plugin.

## Usage

The Maildir++ plugin consists of 2 parts. A common plugin `maildir.so` and a Gtk+ plugin `maildir_gtk.so`. You probably want to load both plugins also the common plugin alone is enough to use a Maildir++ folder that is already added in Sylpheed. But without the Gtk+ plugin you can not add new Maildir++ folders in Sylpheed and the PopUp-menu of the folder tree will only show you the common operations that all folders support and not the operations that affect the Maildir++ folder. So you probably want to load it too.

After you loaded the plugins you can add an existing or create a new Maildir++ folder with the 'File/Add mailbox/Maildir++' entry in the main menu. After that the folder should appear in the folder tree and is useable just like any other folder.

## ToDo

Things that still have to be completed:

- Automatic updating of folder contents, when changed by other program