mailutil(1) from uw-mailutils is apparently missing maildir support in
the current Squeeze package.
I use the following command line to automatically move spam mail from a
local folder to the appropriate folder at my provider:

$ mailutil appenddelete -v Mail/Spamverdacht/ {imap.gmx.net/imap/ssl/user=ThomasBleher@gmx.de}Spamverdacht

On Lenny, this worked fine, but since upgrading to Squeeze I get the
following error:
Can't open Mail/Spamverdacht/: not a selectable mailbox

Google suggests that this means that Maildir support is missing.

This is a serious regression in my opinion, as an upgrade will break
working setups (it certainly broke mine).

I hope that Maildir support can be added back before the release of
Squeeze.

Thanks for your work on Debian!
Thomas Bleher

(sorry if you received this bug twice)

tags 586625 wontfix
thanks


Hi Thomas (and others following this),

Yes, Maildir support has been dropped from UW-imap as announced in the
NEWS file of 8:2007b~dfsg-2.

Unfortunately this will *not* be "corrected" as Maildir support was not
part of the main UW-imap and the patch to implement this feature was
never released as DFSG-free code (i.e. it was wrong of me to apply it in
the first place).

No problem.

I strongly recommend that you install the package apt-listchanges so as
to get informed of important packaging changes provided in NEWS files.


Kind regards,

 - Jonas