Gene Heskett wrote:
Another bit of info: mc see's the dot directories, and in exploring for oddball trash, I found indice files that were not related to the directory they were in and I deleted them all, then restarted kmail, which of course complained about this "emc" directories indice file, so I assume it would rebuild, then open kmails gui. But when it had done so, there is not an indice file visible, so I am now wondering if all these empty directories can be nuked.
But before I do that, I'll restart kmail again to see if it now complains about the emc directory.
No, the restart was clean, no complaints. I'm going to get rid of the now empty dot directories next.
In general you are not supposed to work directly with the directories - use the interface - this is my approach to kmail, but I also use kontact and not kmail directly. My mail is on the mailserver(s) - I have setup also one local and since then it is a blessing (dovecot IMAP - took me a while to configure). I came across dbmail some years ago, but never had the chance to try it myself - it looks even better than dovecot.
I don't know how you handle your mails and why you should have them somewhere around.
An error I made many years ago is to mix up the directory where imap was writing and where the local mails were written by kmail - if you have something messing up in between could cause a lot of headache. Since I put it right no issues, but also all mails go to exim/dovecot.
hope it helps