Re: Seperate 'sets' of mail boxes

Hi,

This command ..

$ kmail --config kmailrc_friends

doesn't work, even if I fully qualify the path/filename of the 
file 'kmailrc_friends'.  Kmail is still looking at the folders in the old 
location, despite the fact that the file 'kmailrc_friends' is definitely 
pointing to ~/Mail/friends path.

Have I got the format of the config parm correct ?  Has anyone had any 
experience with this type of thing please ?

Would appreciate some answers please.  :)

Peter


On Monday 17 November 2008 20:21:38 Peter777 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Further to this question about having seperate email boxes.
>
> I noticed in the Kmail options, the following ..
>
>   --config <filename>       Use alternative configuration file
>
> If I had (say) 4 different email boxes as follows:
>
> * friends   -  the email box resides  in ~/Mail/friends
> * business   -  the email box resides  in ~/Mail/business
> * other1   -  the email box resides  in ~/Mail/other1
> * other2   -  the email box resides  in ~/Mail/other2
>
> then could I do this by simply having 4 kmailrc config files, one for each
> email box, appropriately named (say):
>
> kmailrc_friends
> kmailrc_business
> kmailrc_other1
> kmailrc_other2
>
> and then when I run Kmail, it would be of the format
>
> $ kmail --config kmailrc_friends
> (etc,etc)
>
> Would this work ?  has anyone else tried to do this sort of thing.
>
> Peter
>
> On Sunday 16 November 2008 23:03:50 Peter777 wrote:
> > Found this under the [General] section of kmailrc config file
> >
> > =====
> > folders[$e]=$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
> > =====
> >
> > what does the '$e' do or indicate, is it some sort of parameter that can
> > be parsed ?
> >
> > Just wondering if it may be some method to have seperate sets of mail
> > boxes.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On Sunday 16 November 2008 21:58:39 Peter777 wrote:
> > > Have been using Pegasus Mail for a while, and was able to organise
> > > complete sets of folders (and sub-folders) into different mail boxes.
> > >
> > > This was easily accessed by simply logging in by a username. For
> > > example, some mail box sets may be ..
> > >
> > > * friends
> > > * business
> > > * other1
> > > * other2
> > >
> > > It was a great way to seperate completely different sets of mail boxes,
> > > and each set was stored in different paths. To use the 'friends' mail
> > > box, I'd just login to pegasus, passing a username of 'friends', or if
> > > no username supplied, it would prompt for one. You could also swap
> > > between different mail box sets.
> > >
> > > I haven't learnt to drive KMail much yet, but it seems there is no
> > > ability to have another complete set of mail boxes, is that correct ?
> > >
> > > There are identities, but that only changes name/email from, etc, this
> > > is similar to identities in Pegasus. I have worked out if KMail has the
> > > ability to control seperate mail boxes (and then identitities,
> > > accounts, folders and sub-folders within each mail box 'set'.
> > >
> > > Peter