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

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Sat Feb 11 15:28:28 GMT 2012


On Saturday, 2012-02-11, Anders Lund wrote:

> In kmail 1 there was both visible and hidden subdirectories, some of which
> had localized names. In kmail 2 ~/Mail (or wereever you store your mail)
> is a joke - it is ALWAYS empty apart from empty cur, new and tmp
> subdirectories.
> 
> Personally, I don't care much what the layout looks like, as long as mail
> is stored where the user thinks, in my case indside ~/Mail, as long as it
> is just functional inside kmail. This was true until kmail 2, and it
> should be again.

That can't be quite accurate. The KMail folders resource was specifically 
designed to work with a KMail1 mail store directory and it does not move mails 
outside of that tree.

Thus is uses exactly the same on-disk layout KMail 1 did.

Cheers,
Kevin

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