kmail getting uppity again...

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2012-03-08, gene heskett wrote:
> On Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:11:17 PM Kevin Krammer did opine:
> > On Thursday, 2012-03-08, gene heskett wrote:
> > > Greetings folks;
> > > 
> > > kmail 1.13.7 from the pclos repos.
> > > 
> > > I joined a forum at Cadsoft, for eagle, their pcb design tool.
> > > 
> > > It copies all forum posts to your subscription address, so I thought
> > > it would be nice to make an 'eagle' folder, to reside in the sorted
> > > list of folders I now have about 40 of.  To save these messages in
> > > case I might be able to contribute, and make use of kmail's expiry
> > > rules was the main reason, they are 'no reply' messages, containing
> > > an html link to that forum thread.  AFAIAC, they can be expired in a
> > > couple days.
> > > 
> > > But kmail has now decided any new folders MUST be a subfolder of an
> > > existing selection again, as when I click on Local Folders, the folder
> > > creation stuff is grayed out, disabled.  In both the file pulldown and
> > > the folders pulldown.
> > 
> > Since I have the same version of KMail (on Debian though), I tried to
> > reproduce.
> > Indeed, if Local Folders is selected, the option for creating a new
> > folder in the Folders menu is disabled.
> > However, the respective option in the context menu (AKA right click
> > menu) on Local Folders is enabled and successfully created a top level
> > folder.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> 
> Error opening /home/gene/Mail/.inbox.directory/eagle; this folder is
> missing.
> 
> That one I had nuked previously, with kmail.
> 
> Next?

Does the folder exist? Does it have cur/ new/ and tmp/ sub directories?

Anyway, did using the context menu work for you as it did for me?

Cheers,
Kevin

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