Nother silly Q?

[gene heskett]

On Monday, 28 March 2022 04:32:14 EDT Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sonntag, 27. März 2022 23:56:07 CEST gene heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> > 
> > debian bullseye, useing new kmail-5.15.3
> > 
> > Where does one configure kmail to save sent messages?
> 
> KMail always writes sent messages to the "sent-mail" folder. By
> default, it uses the sent-mail folder below Local Folders. A different
> sent-mail folder can be configured per identity.
> 
> Removing the Akonadi database or fiddling around with other files used
> by KMail or Akonadi can mess up the sent-mail folder configuration and
> KMail may write to another folder or no folder at all. I suggest
> checking your identities for a messed up sent-mail folder setting.
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo

Only one sending identity Ingo, and it was set to local folders>sent-
mail. That folder had only a week or so's messages it, perhaps 10% of 
what I've sent when I looked last night as I sent the above question. 
This morning it all there ANAICT. This box has 32GB of dram in it, so I 
would not think its out of memory unless I have a big OpenSCAD render 
going. But thats a single threaded app, so it only uses one core of this 
6 core i5 at a time. I have some stuff for a harmonic drive, some of 
which takes 15 + minutes to re-render into something I can 3d print when 
I make even a small change.  One of my earlier projects thats slowly 
getting optimized as I learn OpenSCAD.

So the sent-mail that wasn't there last night, has been found, right 
where you folks expected it to be.

But a search, with all folders checked, for a message containiing a 
mailing address, and theres at least 50 messages from this person in this 
database, doesn't find any of them unless every thread is open and 
visible in the upper message list. If the list is compacted down to just 
a list of dates, it doesn't find anything.

And there is a black square, sitting on and hiding the arrow that unpacks 
a message thread, making it impossible to unpack a packed thread.

Sometimes you can scroll the listing to get what you want out from under 
this black square, but not always.

If some of this can be made consistent, I'd be a much happer camper.

Thanks Ingo. Take care and stay well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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