Eli Wapniarski wrote: >> When I click on a top-level account in KMail on an IMAP client, >> the File->New->Add Folder option is greyed out, >> although it is available to create a sub-folder of an existing folder. >> >> I know I can create a new folder by creating a subdirectory .<whatever> >> in ~/Maildir on the IMAP server; but is this really the only way? >> >> Also: is there any way of re-ordering the folders in KMail ? >> I created a new folder in the above fashion, >> but it is listed out of alphabetical order. > > What IMAP server are you using cyrus-imap or dovecote? If you're using > cyrus as I am then the root folder is the inbox and it works for me. Thanks for your response. I should have said I am running dovecot. > If its dovecot, I believe that you can't add folders to the inbox, unless > something has changed and there is a way to do that which I am not aware > of. However, the root folder is the very top level of the tree structure, > that is, the alias of email account. If you can't add a folder there, it > may be bug in kmail. > > If it is someother external source, then we need more details about how > you have worked in the past. IE have you been able to create folders from > what your root folder is? I wish I could be of better help. I'm not quite clear what you mean by the "root" folder. My KMail setup (on a Fedora-17 laptop) is perhaps more complicated than usual, or than necessary? I have 3 email "accounts" (as seen in KMail Settings=>Configure KMail=>Accounts): "grover", "killeen" and "Local Folders". The first two are servers I get email from. When I run KMail I see these 3 accounts as top-level items in the menu on the left. The sub-items, eg "Family", under "grover" in the menu correspond to folders in ~/Maildir/ on the server "grover" (~/Maildir/.Family in this case). The messages in "inbox" under "grover" are a little different. They appear in the server in the folders ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/new . If I highlight "grover" in the KMail menu I see that File=>New=>Add Folder is greyed out. On the other hand, if I highlight "Family" (under "grover") the "Add Folder" option is not greyed out, and I can add a subfolder, eg "Anne", to "Family", under KMail. I see that this adds a directory ~/Maildir/.Family.Anne/ on the server. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
