[kdepim-users] Folder identities revisited

[Art Alexion]

On Wednesday 03 February 2010 10:07:48 Art Alexion wrote:
> I continue to have problems with folder identities "sticking" or being
> persistent.  As this problem only seems to affect me, I have to assume
>  there is something in my configuration which is causing this.
> 
> My setup is
> kmail 1.12.4
> kde 4.3.5
> kubuntu 9.10
> 
> kmail running outside kontact most of the time.
> 
> I have 4 email accounts, all gmail IMAP.  There are three gmail accouts
>  that serve these 4 addresses.  alexion.com is the default account/identity
>  set in kmail.  art.alexion at gmail .com is a separate gmail account.  This
>  latter gmail account also retrieves and servers art.alexion at verizon.net.
>  The fourth is another domain gpr.net, with its own gmail IMAP account.
> 
> For those not familiar with the latter setup, gmail POPs the verizon.net
> account and re-serves it to me via IMAP or webmail.  In doing this, gmail
> appends a label, art.alexion at verizon.net to that mail and the label becomes
>  an IMAP folder.
> 
> My kmail folder tree has 4 main branches, Local Folders (mostly unused),
> alexion.com, gpr.net, and gmail.com.  In alexion.com, folders are set to
>  the default identity and this sticks.  In gpr.net, folders are not set to
>  default identity, but to the gpr.net identity, and this setting also
>  sticks.

Correction, this is not sticking for gpr.net either (I use that account 
seasonally).  It seems the default identity has taken over like some dictator, 
and won't let the other identities assert themselves (except for verizon.net.


> 
> In the gmail.com identity, no folders are set to the default identity.  A
>  few are set to the verizon.net identity, and the rest are set to the
>  gmail.com identity.  The check box as to whether the default identity is
>  set, sticks on all folders here.  The folders set to the verizon.net
>  identity also stick, perfectly.  However, the folders set to the gmail.com
>  identity always, after more than 5 minutes, but less than an hour, revert
>  to the alexion.com identity with is the default identity for the kmail
>  application as a whole.
> 
> I have made this setting in the gui and have hand edited kmailrc many
>  times. The settings I set stick for that short period of time, but
>  eventually revert to alexion.com.
> 
> Unless there are better suggestions, I am thinking of moving kmailrc and
> letting kmail re-create a fresh one, and remaking the settings from
>  scratch.
> 
> Which settings will I lose doing this?
> 
> Any easier suggestions?
> 
> I apologize for the long explanation, but wanted to include all of the
>  details in case something there may be significant.
> 
> this is getting intolerable as I always forget to check the identity with
>  each mail and list mail is being sent from the wrong identity a lot.
> 

-- 
Art Alexion
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