On Sunday, 15 April 2018 2:48:48 PM NZST Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Sonntag, 15. April 2018 14:07:24 CEST cr wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 02:36:07PM -0300, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > > > El 14 abr. 2018, a la(s) 11:01, cr <cr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió: > > > > One possible snag I can see is that kmail has created, in each folder > > > > such as 'cars', subfolders called 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'. Typically > > > > 'tmp' is empty but both 'cur' and 'new' are full of messages. How does > > > > kmail (or akonadi?) assign messages to 'cur' or 'new'? If it > > > > arbitrarily shifts messages from one to the other then my copying idea > > > > will likely result in numerous duplicate messages. > > > > > > > > I've tried the Kmail documentation but it doesn't seem to throw any > > > > light on this.> > > > > > > It's the standard Maildir format. 'new' has unread messages, 'cur' has > > > read messages. They will be moved between folders when you mark > > > > messages > > > > > as read or unread. > > > > Thanks for that. It's useful to know how it should work. > > > > (Inspection shows that I have many more files in some 'new' subdirectories > > than Kmail shows as 'unread'. Evidently akonadi is failing to notice > > them, for some reason. I need to investigate that.) > > The read/unread status is actually part of the filename. > I.e. a "read" message's filename contains an "S" (for Seen). > > The new/cur is something else if I remember correctly. > > Cheers, > Kevin
Ah, now that appears to be consistent with what I can see. My 'Ford' folder in kmail showed just 3 unread messages and just 3 of the files didn't have 'S' at the end of their filename. I just marked them as 'read' in Kmail and all the files now are suffixed 'S'.
Ford/'cur' and 'new' between them contain 119 files and Kmail is showing... 119 messages! So all present and correct. That's a relief. Thanks
Cheers
Chris
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