Re: kmail won't recognize user-defined folders

On Monday, 2009-12-07, Jerry3904 wrote:
> For my business account, I had to reinstall Kmail yesterday, and restored
>  the backed-up Mail folder and the kmailrc file to where they belong. 
>  Kmail does not see the professional emails I have, which sit in a folder
>  "Read" with many subfolders.
> 
> The emails are all there in the Mail folder, and the folder structure is
> visible in the config file, but nothing shows up in the application except
> the default folders.  I tried purging kmail and reinstalling, but that did
> not help; I also tried deleting all the index files and letting kmail
> recreate them, but that failed as well.

Can you run this

kreadconfig --file kmailrc -group General --key folders

and check whether the output is the path of where you restored your mail to?

Cheers,
Kevin

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