[kdepim-users] default local folder format

Sebastian Reitenbach sebastia at l00-bugdead-prods.de
Fri Apr 4 14:15:23 BST 2008


Hi,

Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: 
> On Friday 04 April 2008 12:29:57 Marc Deop i Argemí wrote:
> > On Friday 04 April 2008, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > > So when I then copy a folder tree from imap to the local folders,
> > > kmail would create mbox folders.
> >
> > I'm not completely sure but I think IMAP uses maildir directories so
> > whenever you copy a folder to your local structure you are copying in
> > maildir format. A workaround might be creating a folder manually and
> > copying all the messages later on
> 
> IMAP uses mbox or maildir, depending on which imap server is used and how 
it's 
> configured.  KMail's local folders, however, would depend on the way kmail 
is 
> configured.  If Sebastian is simply wanting to copy folders across from 
> within kmail he can't change the Inbox type, as far as I know, but he can 
set 
> whether he wants maildir or mbox for other folders within Configure KMail 
> 
> Misc.
This option is exactly what I was looking for, I must have overlooked it, 
when I was looking the settings for such an option. 

Thanks a lot!
Sebastian

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