On Monday 24 of June 2013 23:41:14 Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have a large amount of old emails > in /var/spool/mail/tim/ on my laptop. > I have created a KMail account > specifying the MBox file /var/spool/mail/tim/. > I have chosen Lock method: None > > I found there was already a Local Folders account > pointing to a Maildir folder at ~/.local/share/local-mail > which in fact is empty. > So I called the new account alice > (the email comes from in.alice.it). > > Unfortunately after setting up the MBox account as above > I do not see the email in the /var/spool/ folder. > > It is clear that I do not understand KMail accounts properly. > Could some kind soul please enlighten me. > > Should I perhaps delete the old "Local Folders" account, > and use this name for the new account. > Or is that irrelevant? Hi, you can't remove "Local Folders" account, as it will be automatically added after next Akonadi start. I'm not sure I understand it correctly (/me never used mbox), but shouldn't the configuration point to an actual file? /var/spool/mail/tim/ does not look like an MBox file to me :-)) Cheers, Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -- Daniel Vrátil Associate Software Engineer, KDE Desktop Team Red Hat, Inc GPG Key: 0xC59D614F6F4AE348 Fingerprint: 4EC1 86E3 C54E 0B39 5FDD B5FB C59D 614F 6F4A E348
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