mbox to store emails

[Martin Steigerwald]

rhkramer at gmail.com - 27.05.19, 22:26:
> On Monday, May 27, 2019 04:07:17 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > rhkramer at gmail.com - 27.05.19, 21:48:
> > > I'm getting the idea that the current kmail (and going forward),
> > > kmail no longer supports mbox for storing emails (i.e., email
> > > folders)?
> > > 
> > > I've tried googling to find an announcement, but haven't found
> > > anything -- can someone confirm the situation?
> > 
> > We had that topic just about a week ago and I explained what I could
> > about it.
> > 
> > Please see the other thread.
> 
> I read, and now have re-read the other thread -- iiuc, that refers to
> using an mbox file as a source for emails, not to create folders
> (separate mbox files) for storage of emails -- did I misunderstand.
> 
> (Further, iirc, I tried to setup the mixedmaildir as a new account and
> I could not (but, the means to set it up (using Settings / Setup
> KMail / Accounts (or something close to that) is what leads me to
> believe it is a source for email, not a place to store email.

Mixedmaildir is a resource to store mails.

And it can be created from KMail / Settings / Accounts / Retrieval 
(roughly translated from German) in KMail from KDEPIM 18.08.

-- 
Martin