kmail getting uppity again...

[gene heskett]

On Thursday, March 08, 2012 02:57:28 PM Kevin Krammer did opine:

> 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

Yes, it created it, in the .inbox folder both times I tried as I tried to 
create a "../eagle" folder the second time, both times it reported a 
failure, but it was there when the failure msg was click to clear it, but 
when kmail then did the rescan, it was there in the .inbox/eagle as shown 
in the folder list, so I nuked it both times, and now, everytime I hit the 
bottom of the list an it restarts at the top, I have about 5 or 6 error 
messages, "can't find the eagle folder" I have to clear before it will 
actually go show me the next message in the inbox.

This is rapidly turning into a PIMA.  I would switch to claws but the last 
time I looked, it did not have an import from kmail function.  And my kmail 
corpus goes back to early 2002, nearly 10 years.  That is several gigs 
worth of messages I do NOT want to leave behind.

Thanks for any more guidance folks.

Cheers, Gene
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