[Bug 283712] New: setting of kmail2 very confusing

[Daniel Moyne]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283712

           Summary: setting of kmail2 very confusing
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 1.99.0
          Platform: Unlisted Binaries
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: daniel.moyne at free.fr


Version:           1.99.0
OS:                Linux

I have folders like "inbox" and "sent-mail" though I have french language
selected !
I take the opportunity of this message to bring forward the following issues
after upgrading to kubuntu 11.10 :
(1) data location
In kmail2rc there is no more a line like :
folders[$ie]=${KMAIL_HOME}
which allowed the user to control where he wanted his data to be (in particular
not in "/home/the_user/..." ; in my case I could even have on the local net 2
machines accessing the same data through nfs ; apparently now I have lost
control of this.
(2) bogofilter
Before with bogofilter I was sorthing out spam and non spam mails in specific
folders Spam and NonSpam ; from time to time I was training bogofilter with a
script with commands like :
bogofilter -sv -B $dir_data/Spam/cur
bogofilter -nv -B $dir_data/NonSpam/cur
where $dir_data=KMAIL_HOME/.Bogofilter.directory
How can I manage this now as I have lost control of the data location.
(4) migration
As it did not work I had to rebuild a fresh new Kmail2 app with a new user ;
then copy the configuration files of this user (including akonadi, kmailrc,
local-mail, !) to my user and then migrate data with Kmail before moving these
folders where I wanted within Kmail ; but I ended-up with some folders where I
could not put French names !

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
I experience the same migration failure when trying to upgrade fom kubuntu
10.04 to 10.10 ; in this case as my /home partition became too big I had to
give up upgrade and reinstall kubuntu 10.04.

Actual Results:  
I can send and receive mailsbut I don not have a consistent achitecture of
folder names ; size of my "/home" partition is now close to 100 % very likely
due to migration mail data where I did not want it to be

Expected Results:  
control of data location was expected 

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.0.0-12-generic
Compiler: gcc

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