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<div origmsg="yes"></div>On Fri, 3 Dec, 2021 at 10:11 AM, Erik Quaeghebeur <mail.kde.org@equaeghe.nospammail.net> wrote:<div class="rteDiv"> </div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;"><div style="background-color:#F9F9F9; color:#454545;padding:5px; margin-bottom:15px; line-height:23px">To: kdepim-users@kde.org<br>
</div>> In my quest to get a working email agent, first question is <br>
> "how do I get kmail5 to recognize and read, about 7 gigs and 45 maildir folders worth of old kmail-1.9 mail"?<br>
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> Ideally it should create folder entries in the left panel <br>
> simply by finding the folder in <br>
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> /home/$me/Mail, as it is already there, but currently invisible to kmail5.<br>
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I think you want to create a custom account for that in the settings. See <br>
attached screenshot.<br>
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</div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;">I have never seen that requester, where is it?</div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;"><br>
</div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;">Alternatively, you can likely copy your mail onto the existing local <br>
maildir hierarchy.<br>
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</div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;">That looks like this:</div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;">gene@coyote:~$ ls -l Mail<br>
total 176<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 19:31 7x12<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:19 amanda<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 2 07:23 amanda-stf<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 18:21 Apache2<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 bug-tar<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 19:22 clamav<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:32 coco<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 5 15:23 cups<br>
drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec 2 14:42 cur<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:23 debian<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 18:26 debian-arm<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:13 drafts<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 07:25 emc<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 5 15:27 fail2ban<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 18:27 fetchmail-users<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 geda<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 19:23 Gimp-user<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 gkrellm<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 gunsmith<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:24 ham<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 23:13 handloading<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 heyu_users<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:34 inbox<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 5 15:33 keep<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:34 kubuntu-users<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 linda<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:21 linux-rt<br>
drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec 2 14:42 new<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 nut<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:27 OffTopic<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 14:27 Oscad-disc<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:15 outbox<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 6 19:30 python<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 qucs<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:14 sent-mail<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 10:32 Sheldon<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:33 spam<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 8 01:33 spam-hold<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 18:33 TDE<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:13 templates<br>
drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec 2 14:42 tmp<br>
drwx------ 5 gene gene 4096 Oct 31 15:48 trash<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 22:50 work<br>
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Nov 7 02:32 Xorg<br>
gene@coyote:~$ <br>
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And I did get it to import that to a hidden mysql database. But now I have half</div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;">the screen height wasted in empty dirs I haven't found the delete button for yet.<br>
</div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;">Its bad enough I have subs for 47 mailing lists, each with its own folder. 11 lines</div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;">of empty folders and they are not deletible.</div><div class="rteDiv" style="border-left: 3px #CCCCCC solid; padding-left:8px;"><br>
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