Re: [SLE] Kmail and read-only folders

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:55, Richard Bos wrote:
> Go to your kmailrc file in $HOME/.kde/share/config Look up the folder with
> your ReadOnly problem, most likely the ReadOnly flag has been set to true,
> change it false..

You are my new hero, that worked :-)

A summary for the archives:
It sometimes happens after a crash that kmail leaves some folders as
read-only. In my case, I think what happened is the following:
- kmail crashed, and cut the imap connection. That terminates the
imap server, which left some locks (NFS locks) on the files on the
server
- When restarted, kmail detected the read-only status of the remote
files, and set its config file accordingly.
- Even after fixing the NFS lock issue on the server, kmail had its
config set to read-only.

The only solution is to kill kmail, edit the file ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
and replace all ReadOnly=true lines with ReadOnly=false, and then restart
kmail.

Thanks to all who helped

Emmanuel

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