On Saturday 16 June 2012 14:28:51 Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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. The "root" folder of a system is the very first folder of that system. It is the folder in Linux that folder is "/". In Windows it would be "C:/" or "D:/" etc. Tim.... What you have does not resemble anything I have sitting on my computer. My mail is sitting in.. ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/imap/ Maildir.... If I'm not mistaken, is for locally stored mail. And if I am not mistaken, that means that you are drawing mail in via pop3 protocol, not imap and storing them on your system. Would that be correct? Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
