12 Jan
2019
12 Jan
'19
9:13 p.m.
Gene Heskett wrote:
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
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.