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Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@×××××××××××××××××.au> posted |
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200711180906.41607.paulcol@×××××××××××××××××.au, excerpted below, on Sun, |
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18 Nov 2007 09:06:41 +1100: |
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>> That is a good question. I cannot support all the votes for kmail. If |
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>> you want to switch to mdir based mailboxes and you want to use kmail |
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>> just as a local mailbox reader, the first thing that kmail does, is to |
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>> move all your mails into some obscure ~/kde3.5/share/apps/kmail/... |
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>> directory. After that, your mails are not available for other |
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>> mail-clients any more. nice behaviour, isn't it? I couldn't find a way |
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>> to tell kmail not to do that, but to read the mails from the |
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>> preconfigured place instead. |
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>> A second point is, that kmail does not scale well for large mailboxes. |
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> I've been using kmail for years, and it's always been happy to keep my |
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> email under ~/Mail and I have no trouble using mutt to access the kmail |
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> directory when I an logged in via ssh. |
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Same here, only I keep my mail under /mail/<user>/. I did look to see |
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where the setting is in the current GUI and didn't see it, but found it |
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in ~/.kde3.5/share/config/kmailrc, in the [general] section, |
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folders=<path>. I suppose I set it years ago, and every new version has |
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picked it up from the old settings. |
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Now, the dir you mentioned, ~/kde3.5/share/apps/kmail, does contain a |
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bunch of state settings, apparently the read/unread record for all the |
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mail folders under the root location (/mail/<user>/ here), but that's |
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simply app config information, stored in one of the two standard user KDE |
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config dirs (the other being ~/kde3.5/share/config), not the mail itself. |
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As for scaling, I too have seen no issues there. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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