[SOLVED] Kmail not reflecting contents of ~/mail (maildir)

[Jörg Schaible]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:55:56 +0000 Maurice wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:55:14 +0000, I wrote:
> 
>> something in /home/me  is now preventing kmail from properly reflecting
>> the contents of ~/mail any more.
>> 
>> The $64 question is: How to find the culprit?!
> 
> Added a folder with odd name, then did search for  that name in ~/.
> 
> Name appeared in ~/.mail.directory,  which somehow Kmail was somehow
> regarding as ~/mail!
> 
> Renamed ~/mail to ~/.mail.directory and Kmail soon picked that up and
> eventually displayed all the missing subfolders and contents!
> 
> $64:
> Why did Kmail suddenly decide to change to ~/.mail.directory instead of
> ~./mail (despite it still declaring under /Configure/Local Folders that
> the maildir files were in ~/mail)?

Because KMail has its own idea about a proper maildir(++) structure ... :-/

Cheers,
Jörg