[kdepim-users] Kmail and Duplicated Messages

[O. Sinclair]

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

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