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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#24783: option missing for interoperability: leave/keep mails in local inbox
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2001-04-26 6:30:57
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On Thursday, 26. April 2001 01:44, hans@ecke.ws wrote:
>
> In this, it is quite unfortunate that kmail uses its own inbox in
> Mail/Inbox. Imagine: * I read a mail with kmail and decide to leave it in
> my inbox to answer it later * the next time, I use pine - but the above
> mail is gone into ~Mail/inbox. Now I have to tell pine to go into this
> special folder. My whole workflow is broken.

What about setting up a local POP3 server if not already running and using 
that instead of the local account?

> The same problem with procmail. Why do I need to do something special to
> use procmail? Pine is fine if procmail writes into ~Mail. Why can't kmail?
>
> I suppose its all an issue of the .index files. I see at least a couple
> ways how to solve this: * check modification time on mail folders (or
> checksums). If somebody other than kmail changed a folder, rebuild the
> .index files * How does pine do it? AFAIK they also use persistent
> information in some special mail in each folder (or only the inbox?). Yet
> pine is able to play nice with other mailers and procmail.

A way to use procmail together with KMail is described in the FAQ.

Regards,
Michael Häckel

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