Thanks again, all of you.
2011/11/16 Philippe Bourdeu d'Aguerre bda@aime-toulouse.fr:
Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
I have now successfully copied an intact copy of the Mail folder ~/Mail) from a backup to my present setup. I have checked, and my folders and emails at least are there.
But KMail won't use them/doesn't see them.
In file ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc under [General] put a line with:
folders=/home/lisi/Mail
The file already has: folders[$e]=$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
I tried to add folders=/home/lisi/Mail instead of, after and before it.
To no avail.
I also tried to open KMail at the command line.
I failed, so I thought, and went on with other things.
Then KMail suddenly opened up, with all my folders and email, but no settings.
I started to put the various settings in, and to recreate my filters. And then to sort out the mail, a large amount of which had landed unsorted in the inbox.
I put my computer on this morning and opened KMail. The settings I put in yesterday evening are all there, as are the filters I set up yesterday. I have looked at the ~/Mail directory. The emails that I downloaded last night are there, as are the rest.
Why has KMail gone back to not using the ~/Mail? And, more importantly, how do I get KMail to use it?!
Thanks, Lisi