Message structure in Kmail

[Duncan]

Frank Weng \(a.k.a. Franklin\) posted on Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:29:58 +0800
as excerpted:

> I looked at the kmailrc, but I didn't know which option to edit.  I was
> searching for 'messagestruct', or even 'tructur' to avoid case
> difference.  Now I know that I should search for 'MIMETreeLocation'. 
> It's so... intuitive.

LOL!

Yeah, the name in the rc file is definitely more technical.  It helps if 
you know enough about email mesage format to know that the MIME RFCs 
defined the modern multi-part mail structure we have today.  And the kmail 
devs obviously have to be familiar with the official message specs, so the 
name is logical from that perspective.  But then they wrote the GUI for it 
and realized that many users would have no clue if they called it a MIME 
tree, so in the UI, it's message structure.  So that makes perfect sense, 
too.

... Until a UI config option disappears and you're a user trying to match 
the UI name with the setting in the file, and you haven't a clue what to 
look for.

But I suspected it might be labeled differently in the file, and simply 
hoped that however it was labeled, I'd know it when I saw it.  Which I did 
(knowing what MIME was certainly helped), but only after manually scanning 
way more of that 120 KB config file than I wanted to!

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and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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