Re: configuring imap in kmail

On Tuesday 24 March 2009, eddie wrote:
> On Monday 23 March 2009 17:45:15 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > Am Montag, 23. März 2009 schrieb eddie:
> > > On Monday 23 March 2009 16:20:47 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > On Monday 23 March 2009 15:48:21 eddie wrote:
> > > > > Hi
> > > > > I've just joined the list born out of the frustration of
> > > > > trying to configure imap in kmail.
> > > > > My mail directory is called "mail" and lives in my home area.
> > > > > I've changed the namedspace entry to "~/mail". However, new
> > > > > folders seem to get created on my home area and not in the
> > > > > subdirectory mail. Does anyone know how to make kmail behave
> > > > > properly or is this normal behaviour for kmail?  How do I
> > > > > confine the activities of kmail to the ~/mail area?  I would
> > > > > be very grateful if someone could give me some pointer as I
> > > > > find this all very frustrating and somehow I must be
> > > > > overlooking something somewhere in the documentation.
> > >
> > > .
> > > I am connecting to an imap server
> > > (http://www.washington.edu/imap/) running on opensuse 10.3
> > > (x86-64). On my workstation I have KMail 1.9.10 (using KDE 3.5.10
> > > "release 21.11") on opensuse 11.1 (x86-64).
> >
> > If you can change the imap server please do it. wuimap is not very
> > good (performance and feature wise). choose dovecot as Anne
> > sugested, easy to install easy to maintain and ways ahead of uwimap
> > (and if you want to frustrate yourself try cyrus imap;-) ). I am
> > not sure that uwimap supports home area.
>
> I have no authority to change the imap server unfortunately. I don't
> think that other users have any problems but I'm one of the few if
> not the only one who uses kmail.  I'll try suggesting a change but
> I'll need to find a better reason than that I can't use kmail with
> it. I think it more likely that I'll be encouraged to use another
> client like thunderbird or evolution, which would be a shame because
> I really do like kmail.

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-amd64%40lists.debian.org/msg16030.html 
suggests that using "mail" instead of "~/mail" as namespace might help.


Regards,
Ingo

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