[Kde-pim] KMail searching, and actions

[Shaheed Haque]

Hi,


On 17 January 2014 10:10, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 13 January 2014 22:58:20 Shaheed Haque wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Having finally got to KMail 4.12 (via Ubuntu), and thus turned Nepomuk
> back
> > on, I now find myself confused as to what Search functionality
> does/should
> > work in terms of the ability to manage the "found" emails. Specifically:
> >
> > - I enter some search criteria, and then search.
> >
> > - The results window fills (though in some weird manner with a bunch of
> > blank rows before the actual results).
> >
> > - I then select some (or all) of the emails
> >
> > From this point, I have three questions:
> >
> > - I would like to delete the selected emails, but no such action is
> > available (from the context menu, or from the Search folder). Perhaps
> this
> > is because a search is in effect a virtual folder...in any event, is
> there
> > a way to do this?
>
> I don't think it is possible. What you get when you search is a 'virtual'
> folder, you don't actually have the real mails. In my experience, copying
> works but moving doesn't very well. It might simply be buggy, of course,
> but
> in general - it is for searching and reading the found mails, I don't think
> it's meant to be a 'real' folder.
>

Ack, that's much as I feared. It seems a real shame as I think it could be
a very powerful tool for managing email.

Thanks, Shaheed

> - As a workaround, I tried moving the selected emails to another folder
> > (using the context menu), but this does not seem to work consistently. Is
> > there some trick to getting the emails to move?
> >
> > - There is a context menu item for "Cut". What is this supposed to do?
> >
> > Am I missing something about how Search in general is supposed to work?
> >
> > Thanks, Shaheed
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