Re: Folder identities revisited

2010/2/4 Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]>:
> On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Art Alexion wrote:
> [snip]
>> My kmail folder tree has 4 main branches, Local Folders (mostly
>> unused), alexion.com, gpr.net, and gmail.com.  In alexion.com,
>> folders are set to the default identity and this sticks.  In
>> gpr.net, folders are not set to default identity, but to the gpr.net
>> identity, and this setting also sticks.
>>
>> In the gmail.com identity, no folders are set to the default
>> identity.  A few are set to the verizon.net identity, and the rest
>> are set to the gmail.com identity.  The check box as to whether the
>> default identity is set, sticks on all folders here.  The folders
>> set to the verizon.net identity also stick, perfectly.  However, the
>> folders set to the gmail.com identity always, after more than 5
>> minutes, but less than an hour, revert to the alexion.com identity
>> with is the default identity for the kmail application as a whole.
>>
>> I have made this setting in the gui and have hand edited kmailrc many
>> times. The settings I set stick for that short period of time, but
>> eventually revert to alexion.com.
>
> I suspect this to be a problem with reading the settings from kmailrc
> caused by the names of the folders (which are used as configuration
> groups in kmailrc). Can you give an example of a configuration group in
> kmailrc for which the setting does not stick?

Two folder examples are named "PLUG" and "Hostile City"
The computer with kmail is at home, so I can paste the whole kmailrc
reference to these folders this evening.


>
>
>> Unless there are better suggestions, I am thinking of moving kmailrc
>> and letting kmail re-create a fresh one, and remaking the settings
>> from scratch.
>
> It is very unlikely that this will solve your problem.

Thanks for telling me this before I did it.  I wouldn't want to
rebuild all of my settings for nothing.


>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo

Thanks Ingo.


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