From kde Fri Mar 09 11:42:30 2012 From: gene heskett Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:42:30 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] kmail getting uppity again... Message-Id: <201203090642.30232.gheskett () wdtv ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=133129340723072 On Friday, March 09, 2012 06:41:29 AM Martin (KDE) did opine: > Am 08.03.2012 21:05, schrieb gene heskett: > > On Thursday, March 08, 2012 02:57:28 PM Kevin Krammer did opine: > >> On Thursday, 2012-03-08, gene heskett wrote: > >>> On Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:11:17 PM Kevin Krammer did opine: > >>>> On Thursday, 2012-03-08, gene heskett wrote: > >>>>> Greetings folks; > >>>>> > >>>>> kmail 1.13.7 from the pclos repos. > >>>>> > >>>>> I joined a forum at Cadsoft, for eagle, their pcb design tool. > >>>>> > >>>>> It copies all forum posts to your subscription address, so I > >>>>> thought it would be nice to make an 'eagle' folder, to reside in > >>>>> the sorted list of folders I now have about 40 of. To save these > >>>>> messages in case I might be able to contribute, and make use of > >>>>> kmail's expiry rules was the main reason, they are 'no reply' > >>>>> messages, containing an html link to that forum thread. AFAIAC, > >>>>> they can be expired in a couple days. > >>>>> > >>>>> But kmail has now decided any new folders MUST be a subfolder of > >>>>> an existing selection again, as when I click on Local Folders, > >>>>> the folder creation stuff is grayed out, disabled. In both the > >>>>> file pulldown and the folders pulldown. > >>>> > >>>> Since I have the same version of KMail (on Debian though), I tried > >>>> to reproduce. > >>>> Indeed, if Local Folders is selected, the option for creating a new > >>>> folder in the Folders menu is disabled. > >>>> However, the respective option in the context menu (AKA right click > >>>> menu) on Local Folders is enabled and successfully created a top > >>>> level folder. > >>>> > >>>> Cheers, > >>>> Kevin > >>> > >>> Error opening /home/gene/Mail/.inbox.directory/eagle; this folder is > >>> missing. > >>> > >>> That one I had nuked previously, with kmail. > >>> > >>> Next? > >> > >> Does the folder exist? Does it have cur/ new/ and tmp/ sub > >> directories? > >> > >> Anyway, did using the context menu work for you as it did for me? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Kevin > > > > Yes, it created it, in the .inbox folder both times I tried as I tried > > to create a "../eagle" folder the second time, both times it reported > > a failure, but it was there when the failure msg was click to clear > > it, but when kmail then did the rescan, it was there in the > > .inbox/eagle as shown in the folder list, so I nuked it both times, > > and now, everytime I hit the bottom of the list an it restarts at the > > top, I have about 5 or 6 error messages, "can't find the eagle > > folder" I have to clear before it will actually go show me the next > > message in the inbox. > > > > This is rapidly turning into a PIMA. I would switch to claws but the > > last time I looked, it did not have an import from kmail function. > > And my kmail corpus goes back to early 2002, nearly 10 years. That > > is several gigs worth of messages I do NOT want to leave behind. > > And again: Why don't you set up a local imap server (dovecot) and put > all mails into it? After you did this once you can use what ever > mailclient you want without the need to move mails again and again. > > Martin > That is more than likely what I will do with claws. Thanks Martin. > > Thanks for any more guidance folks. > > > > Cheers, Gene > > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: If food be the music of love, eat up, eat up. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.