Re: [kde-linux] KMail 1.9.1 Flaws

On Saturday 26 August 2006 15:49, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:

Steve, Jan, Justion,

I gather from your responses that I may have omitted a key point. I
performed an "in-situ" upgrade from SuSE Linux 10.0 to 10.1. During
the upgrade, .kde/share/config/kmailrc was changed to incorporate new
features.

When I first opened KMail after the upgrade, the folder panel
correctly showed the two IMAP servers that I use: an IMAP account on
my site's local mail server and an IMAP account on a corporate
Microsoft Exchange server. What was missing were all of my mail
folders that were maintained on the local IMAP mail server.

Using the Settings>Configure KMail>Accounts>Modify, I couldn't find
any options that would allow me to set the path to my mail folders
for the account on the local IMAP mail server. Where I recall that
there had been a Advanced button or box where I could set the path,
there were a group of boxes for "name space".


The imap server should know where the mail is stored, you don't need to
specify a path to it in kmail. For example the config file
(/etc/courier-imap/imapd) for my courier imap server contains:

MAILDIR=.maildir
MAILDIRPATH=.maildir

These are all relative to the users home account, so my mail appears in
~/.maildir.

kmail then talks to the server to access the email rather than looking
directly at it on disk.

Is your imap server running?

I did find a way to gain access to my IMAP servers by modifying the
kmailrc file. Immediately following [Account 1], three variables (0,
1, 2) were added before the Folder variable. By changing the line
1="" to 1="~/Mail/", all of my existing folders would appear in the
folder panel.


My kmailrc doesn't have a path to the mail directory, as I would expect, but
it sees the mail on the server.

In the "Local" section of the folder panel, a right-click on the sent-
mail icon allowed you to change the properties and re-define it to be
located on the IMAP server. This didn't work after the upgrade.

Anyway, my plan is to add "prefix=/~/mail" following the
"precommand-" statement in kmailrc when I return to work on Monday
and see what happens.

The KMail documentation doesn't appear to have been updated during
the upgrade, what are the namespace variables supposed to represent?


namespaces are a feature of imap, see
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2342.txt>


Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Steve
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