[kde] kmail structure



Hello everyone.

Need some help understanding kmail's structure. I recently set up a new user
with kmail. Wanted to move a small portion of my mail to that user but had
some difficulty. Had to end up forwarding that mail through the ISP and
downloading as the new user. That worked OK, but I am puzzled because of the
differences in the structure of kmail between the new user and mine. I am
beginning to believe it has to do with whether it is a mailbox or a
maildirectory.

The new user has a "Mail" directory in /home/user/ but I do not.
In /home/~/.kde/share/apps/kmail, the new user does not have a "mail"
directory, but I do.

The new user has all of the mail show up in /home/user/Mail. Some of my mail
shows up in /home/bob/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail. That directory is a mix of
directories and files which appear to be a "mailbox" format.

Now I say some of my mail because, in kmail itself I have an extensive list of
directories. e.g. I have a Linux directory which has at least 50
sub-directories who have further directories below them. When I look in
the .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail file I do not see them. Linux is a "mailbox"
with a few entries in it, not a directory. Where are all of those
sub-directories?

Not a big deal because everything seems to be working OK but I sure would
like to understand what is going on. And, maybe I should be thinking about
making everything the same? Hmmm scary thought.

Bob S.

BTW this is kmail 1.9.1
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