Re: [SOLVED] Kmail not reflecting contents of ~/mail (maildir)

On Freitag, 3. August 2018 01:14:51 CEST Jörg Schaible wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:55:56 +0000 Maurice wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:55:14 +0000, I wrote:
> >> something in /home/me  is now preventing kmail from properly reflecting
> >> the contents of ~/mail any more.
> >> 
> >> The $64 question is: How to find the culprit?!
> > 
> > Added a folder with odd name, then did search for  that name in ~/.
> > 
> > Name appeared in ~/.mail.directory,  which somehow Kmail was somehow
> > regarding as ~/mail!
> > 
> > Renamed ~/mail to ~/.mail.directory and Kmail soon picked that up and
> > eventually displayed all the missing subfolders and contents!
> > 
> > $64:
> > Why did Kmail suddenly decide to change to ~/.mail.directory instead of
> > ~./mail (despite it still declaring under /Configure/Local Folders that
> > the maildir files were in ~/mail)?

This sounds like a bug to me. All folders in Local Folders should be inside 
the configured root directory ~/mail. Top-level folders directly in ~/mail, 
subfolders in .foo.directory subdirectories.


> Because KMail has its own idea about a proper maildir(++) structure ... :-/

Yeah, well. Back when we added maildir support additionally to mbox support we 
kept the tried and trusted way for handling subfolders. Also, in KMail mbox 
and maildir folders could (and still can) be mixed in the same folder 
hierarchy which, for obvious reason, isn't possible with "a proper maildir(++) 
structure".

Regards,
Ingo

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