Re: Folder identities revisited

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Vladimir Prus <[email protected]>wrote:

> Ingo Klöcker wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> I am having the same problem, and it's intermittent. For example, right now
> I have changed an identity for a top-level folder ('inbox') of an IMAP
> account.
> After closing and restarting kmail once, the identity setting was
> preserved.
> At this point, I've made a copy of kmailrc. After closing and restarting
> again,
> the identity on that folder was reset to 'Default'. The difference in
> config
> file is below. Any idea what could be wrong?
>
> (This happens on Kubuntu 9.10, and I can poke with a debugger given rough
> idea
> where to look).
>
>
>

If it matters, my problem is also on kubuntu 9.10 .  I have not been able to
run kmail since upgrading to KDE 4.4 from the PPA, so I have no idea whether
the problem persists in that version.



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artAlexion
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