[kdepim-users] HOWTO: Get rid of Local Folders that keeps recreated

Kevin Krammer krammer at kde.org
Sun Mar 18 10:31:07 GMT 2012


Hi Andras,

On Sunday, 2012-03-18, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  there is a common issue that you have a Local Folder pointing to
> ~/.local/share/local-mail that you don't use, but you can't get rid of it.
> I wrote a small wiki page howto fix remove it:
> http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips#Local_Folders_is_added_ov
> er_and_over
> 
> I know this is not optimal, especially the Outbox part is ugly and there
> should be a nice UI to do it (instead of the maildispatcher crashing when
> you remove the account with outbox and recreating the Local Folder
> automatically), but as we don't have it yet, the only solution is what I
> wrote in the wiki.
> 
> I hope this is useful for you as well (yeah, I wrote as I had to fix it
> myself today)

Any guess how you arrived at that situation?

Did you reconfigure the path of the existing maildir resource to point to 
~/Mail or create a new one and delete the one pointing to ~/.local/local-mail?

Cheers,
Kevin

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