kmail getting uppity again...

[gene heskett]

On Friday, March 09, 2012 06:41:29 AM Martin (KDE) did opine:

> Am 08.03.2012 21:05, schrieb 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.
> 
> And again: Why don't you set up a local imap server (dovecot) and put
> all mails into it? After you did this once you can use what ever
> mailclient you want without the need to move mails again and again.
> 
> Martin
> 
That is more than likely what I will do with claws.  Thanks Martin.

> > Thanks for any more guidance folks.
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
> 
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Cheers, Gene
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