[kdepim-users] Kmail and Duplicated Messages

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 10 January 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On 10/01/12 19:43, O. Sinclair wrote:
> > On 10/01/12 21:04, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> On 10/01/12 18:18, Lívio Cipriano wrote:
> >>> On 10 January 2012 15:27:10 Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>>> On 10/01/12 14:05, Lívio Cipriano wrote:
> >>>>> On 10 January 2012 13:48:23 Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>>>>> reading MailDir storage format was not one of them.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> "KMail MailDir" format.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Livio
> >>>> 
> >>>> Sorry, I don't know what you mean.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Anne
> >>> 
> >>> In Kmail, if you go to Settings->Configure Kmail->Accounts->Add,
> >>> you I'll notice that exist, at least, to types of local
> >>> repositories for your email messages in your PC: "KMail Maildir"
> >>> and "Maildir". The first stores emails messages as files in
> >>> directories or emails messages in files of type Mailbox (mbox).
> >>> KDE 3.5 supported this type of repository; as mentioned in the
> >>> above dialogue. This format resulted after importing emails from
> >>> some other system - in my case was Thunderbird - and adding new
> >>> folders after.
> >>> 
> >>> I'm assuming that Kmail2 stores emails  only as files in dirs.
> >>> Ex. Personal Folders has Maildir format. This works fine, but
> >>> I've not yet notice that Kmail2 works with "Kmail Maildir"
> >>> formats. With repositories with format "Kmail Maildir", imported
> >>> from KDE 3.5, Kmail2 recognizes the messages that were stored in
> >>> dirs, but NOT the messages stored in Mailbox files.
> >> 
> >> As I said, I'm not using KMail 2 but I think you are making
> >> dubious assumptions.  I can't see why a folder type would be
> >> "KMail Maildir" yet hold mbox files - it just doesn't seem
> >> logical to me. In any case, KMail always did read mbox files, as
> >> you say, but it sounds to me as though you are selecting the
> >> wrong type of resource.
> >> 
> >> In Akonadi Configuration you can add a resource of the type Mbox -
> >> the description says "Loads data from a local mbox file".  I would
> >> have thought that if your messages are in mbox files you would
> >> need to use that resource and point it to your mail.
> > 
> > there is actually a "KMail Maildir" resource type in Akonadi - as I
> > have understood it relating to migration from KMail1 to KMail2.
> > However I do not think it mixes maildir and mbox, that must be a
> > misunderstanding
> 
> Blind guess - I understand that KMail 2 no longer distinguishes
> between dIMAP and normal IMAP.  I wonder if the "KMail Maildir"
> resource type is actually the "mixed mail" resource that I've heard
> mentioned several times.  If I understand it correctly, "mixed mail"
> is the combination of IMAP and dIMAP mail - again with the caveat
> that this is my impression, not gospel truth.

This last point is a misunderstanding. "mixed mail" has nothing to do 
with IMAP or dIMAP, but only with locally stored mail. The confusion is 
probably caused by the fact that in KMail1 for IMAP the locally cached 
information (the headers of the messages) was stored in an mbox folder 
hierarchy while for dIMAP the locally cached messages were stored in a 
maildir folder hierarchy. But those caches were completely independent 
from the mixed maildir/mbox folder hierarchy used for storing the local 
mail. Was this understandable?


Regards,
Ingo
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