[Kde-pim] A sigh

[Anders Lund]

Søndag den 29. januar 2012 11:15:12 Andras Mantia skrev:
> Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2012, 23:03:42 schrieb Anders Lund:
> >> Didn't think of that, I thought it should be stored where configured.
> >> Kmail stored it in ~/Mail, which I renamed to start from scratsc. But
> >> there it is. Should I file a bug report about it not being stored where
> >> configured?
> > 
> > It's a known bug. e.g. the standard local folders resource points to
> > ~/.local/share/local-mail but the data is in ~/.local/share/.local-
> > mail.directory, i.e. if you would back-up the folder the resource points
> > to you would lose all your email.
> > 
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285895
> 
> Actually, I'm not sure if this is a bug or not. I was sure until now, this
> is how the maildir standard demands (subfolders are in a .folder.directory
> folder). But I cannot find any document stating this. There is maildir and
> maildir++ structure. The latter allows subfolder directly in the folder. I
> wonder what is the case in the original maildir case.
> It was written originally for qmail, and here is the manual page:
> http://qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html
> 
> Doesn't mention at all subfolders. If anybody know where the .foo.directory
> storing comes from, speak up. :)
> 
> What is sure that this is not new to KMail2, KMail1 did use the same maildir
> layout.

All the time I have been using kmail (since kde 1.12) my mail have been in 
~/Mail. At some point I switched to maildir, but the mail was still in  
~/Mail.

If it is not a technical bug, it is a logical bug. [Akonadi resource] 
configuration offers me to decide where mail should be stored, and then does not 
store it there. That is lying to me, and dangerous, as I can not trust the 
system, in this case akonadi and kde.

-- 
Anders
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