[kde-linux] KMail 1.9.1 Flaws

[Steve Evans]

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 at adelphia.net

Steve
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