[kdepim-users] Re: kmaill sent-mail folders.

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Tue Jan 25 20:06:11 GMT 2011


On Tuesday, 2011-01-25, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 24 January 2011, Alessandro wrote:
> > can you help me with this question? thanks
> > 
> > http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=92648
> 
> Reading the above thread it seems you want to know where KMail's sent-
> mail folder resides in the file system.
> 
> Apparently, you are using KMail 1.13.5 (with KDE SC 4.5).
> 
> First let's find out where KDE stores its settings. Run the following
> command in Konsole:
>     kde4-config --localprefix
> I guess it's ~/.kde for you.
> 
> Next let's find out where KMail's folders reside. Run the following
> command (all in one line) in Konsole:
>     kreadconfig --file `kde4-config --localprefix`/share/config/kmailrc
> --group General --key folders

This can be done in a bit shorter way:

kreadconfig --file kmailrc --group General --key folders

(kreadconfig knows how to find KDE config files)

> This will probably be ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail for you. If yes, then
> this directory should contain a file or directory called sent-mail.
> 
> If there's no such file or directory then I don't know.
> 
> Why are you asking anyway? Are there messages in the sent-mail folder
> below Local Folders when you run KMail? Or are we talking about IMAP
> accounts?

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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