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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Kmail and Duplicated Messages
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2012-01-11 8:47:51
Message-ID: 4F0D4CB7.4060406 () googlemail ! com
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On 10/01/12 22:53, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2012, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> 
>> Blind guess - I understand that KMail 2 no longer distinguishes 
>> between dIMAP and normal IMAP.  I wonder if the "KMail Maildir" 
>> resource type is actually the "mixed mail" resource that I've
>> heard mentioned several times.  If I understand it correctly,
>> "mixed mail" is the combination of IMAP and dIMAP mail - again with
>> the caveat that this is my impression, not gospel truth.
> 
> This last point is a misunderstanding. "mixed mail" has nothing to do
>  with IMAP or dIMAP, but only with locally stored mail. The confusion
> is probably caused by the fact that in KMail1 for IMAP the locally
> cached information (the headers of the messages) was stored in an
> mbox folder hierarchy while for dIMAP the locally cached messages
> were stored in a maildir folder hierarchy. But those caches were
> completely independent from the mixed maildir/mbox folder hierarchy
> used for storing the local mail. Was this understandable?
> 
Thanks for clearing up that confusion.  <sigh> One day we'll have a
comprehensive and comprehendable explanation of the whole system, saving
such wild guesses.

Anne
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