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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">On Wednesday, December 22, 2021 12:49:01 AM PST Jörg Schaible wrote:</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> Hi,</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> the point is that there's no real standard concerning subfolders for a local</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> maildir. KMail does this:</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> ====================== %< =======================</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> ~ $ ls .local/share/local-mail/</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> cur new tmp</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> ~ $ ls .local/share/.local-mail.directory/</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> quarantine drafts inbox outbox sent-mail templates trash</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> So, all subfolders are managed in a sibling directory with the name pattern</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> ".<foldername>.directory". Each of these subdirectories above has its own</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> Hope this helps,</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">On the off-chance that it might trigger something with someone on this wonderful list concerning my long-standing problem (when checking, kmail shows new mail fine but also often shows already read email from a week or two ago), I note that when I try Jorg's suggestion, here is what I get:</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#54ff54; background-color:#ffffff;">johwhi@wlcjon</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">:</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">~</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">$ ls .local/share/local-mail/ </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br /></span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">2021-11-21</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">cur</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">drafts</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">inbox</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">new</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">outbox</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">sent-mail</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">templates</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">tmp</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">trash</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br /></span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#54ff54; background-color:#ffffff;">johwhi@wlcjon</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">:</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; font-weight:600; color:#5454ff; background-color:#ffffff;">~</span><span style=" font-family:'monospace'; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;">$ ls .local/share/.local-mail.directory/ </span><span style=" font-family:'monospace';"><br />ls: cannot access '.local/share/.local-mail.directory/': No such file or directory</span></p>
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