On Tuesday 25 of June 2013 12:35:12 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Daniel Vrátil wrote: > > 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? > > = > > > you can't remove "Local Folders" account, as it will be automatically > > added after next Akonadi start. > > OK. > The fact that it is called "Local Folders" suggests that > it could point to more than one folder, > but it does not seem possible to add a second folder here. I believe "Folders" refers to actual email folders (Inbox, Outbox, Trash, ...), not to the storage :-) > > 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 :-)) > > I take it an MBox file is a file of email in mbox format. > The file /var/spool/mail/tim (which is linked to /var/mail/tim) > contains email in mbox format. Indeed this is a bug in the MBox resource. When I add an MBox resoure pointing to /var/mail/dvratil it does not work, but when I configure it to use /var/spool/mail/dvratil, it works as expected. So MBox resource does not cope with symlinks. /me will fix :) Cheers, Dan > I can read it eg with mutt, which finds this file automatically. > > So I can sum up my problem with kmail(2): > mutt finds my local email automagically, so why doesn't kmail? > > _______________________________________________ > 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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