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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] The format of Inbox
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () tiscali ! co ! uk>
Date:       2006-07-01 16:28:20
Message-ID: 200607011728.20441.cannewilson () tiscali ! co ! uk
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On Saturday 01 July 2006 14:09, Ingo Kl=C3=B6cker wrote:
> On Friday 30 June 2006 20:39, Carsten Burghardt wrote:
> > Am Friday 30 June 2006 16:11 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > > A friend is considering changing to KMail from Evolution, and has
> > > been asking me about mailbox formats.  At the moment he thinks he
> > > wants to stay with mbox format.  I know that when you create
> > > folders you can choose the format, but what about the
> > > default-created folders like Inbox?  I don't recall any choice
> > > being given, and my local Inbox is maildir.
> >
> > The format for those default folders switched some time ago as
> > maildir is the better alternative. So they are always created as
> > maildir.
>
> ... unless they already exist. So if you don't want the standard folders
> to be maildir then do the following before starting KMail/Kontact for
> the first time:
> mkdir ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail
> mkdir ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
> touch ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/{inbox,outbox,drafts,sent-mail,trash}
>
> The touch command will create empty files and KMail will then consider
> them as empty mbox folders.
>
A neat way of solving the problem if he really needs mbox.  Thanks

Anne

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