Re: [opensuse] mail

On Saturday 21 April 2007 16:23, Doug McGarrett wrote:
...

When you go to the Local Folders/inbox - KMail, you are presented
with (under File) "Save As". So you do that. Then you tell it OK,
or whatever it says then. And now you would like to read your next
email, but under the display, is the old email that you just saved,
and you don't want to read it anymore.

BFD. Go on to the next mail. "Save as..." does just that. In what
application does "Save as..." delete the saved entity? Very few, I'd
venture to guess.


You have to snap on that, go to the X on the top, and stop it.

I hate to say it, but what you write makes no sense at all.


Eudora doesn't work that way, and
neither should KMail. It's a PITA, and should not be necessary. I
hope that now I have explained what nobody seems to have grasped
before.

Nope. Keep trying, if you care to get us to understand your travails...


Some correspondents have talked about "dragging and dropping" an
email to a directory. I have no idea how to do that. The directory
that all the emails are saved to is home/doug/Documents. It would
help if I could use some different directories, for different email
lists, like mw, but I don't know how to do this.

Mail is unto itself, ordinarily. All mail clients I know of manage the
storage of the messages they manage in their own way. Why should it be
otherwise? KMail gives you more options than most, insofar as it allows
you to choose either file-per-message or file-per-mailbox on a mailbox
by mailbox basis.


I don't have any
directories displayed to drag and drop anything to. And, to be
honest, I expect to use "Save as" so that I can control the name of
the file, such as file, file_1, file_2, etc, which I could not do
with drag and drop.

When you use KMail's "Save as..." command, you are in complete control
of the name and directory of the file into which the message is save.
What more could you want?

Manage your mail within your mail client, OK? Why would you want, on a
routine basis, to move mail out of the mail software? Once you do it is
clearly not under the management of your mail program.

Create folders within KMail for each distribution list and / or
correspondent, and / or activity you're subscribed to or involved in.
Then either manually or via filter move incoming mail to those folders.

I dare say, in 2007 this is not rocket science.


Randall Schulz
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