[Kde-pim] Maildir directory structure [Re: A sigh]

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday, 2012-02-11, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Saturday, 2012-02-11, Andras Mantia wrote:
> >> Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> >> > This is not entirely true. In KMail1 top-level local folders were
> >> > stored in ~/Mail, but not in ~/.Mail.directory. OTOH, in case of the
> >> > IMAP and dIMAP caches the caches were stored in
> >> > ~/.<accountID>.directory folders next to empty <accountID> folders.
> >> 
> >> True and this is something we can change indeed, as KMail2 still support
> >> a toplevel folder that has only sub-directories directly and can't
> >> contain messages itself (like the ~/Mail folder).
> > 
> > The maildir resource actually has a setting for that.
> > See TopLevelIsContainer in maildirresource.kcfg
> > 
> > No idea if this is still used inside the resource code though.
> 
> It is, and that's why having a ~/Mail with folders only inside still works
> - well works since KDE 4.7.2 again - , but this is valid only for the
> toplevel directory and if it doesn't have the cur/new/tmp inside. For
> subfolders it is not supported at all.

No, but it solves the problem of ~/.local/share/local-mail and non-toplevel 
data being in ~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory, i.e. not within the same 
tree.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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