Once again, Kmail has trashed the filters that route mail into my subfolders. Is it safe for me to copy the list from an old copy, or will that mess up kmailrc? I can once again recreate the 178 filters manually, but that takes a long time and introduces errors.
Leslie
On Thursday 06 November 2025 01:33:23 Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
Once again, Kmail has trashed the filters that route mail into my subfolders. Is it safe for me to copy the list from an old copy, or will that mess up kmailrc? I can once again recreate the 178 filters manually, but that takes a long time and introduces errors.
Leslie
I sure don't have that many filters, but when I make a new TDE install, I copy the kmail directory and the files from /.trinity/share/config (kmailrc, kmail2rc, kmail.eventrc and kmailsnippertrc) and never had anything messed up.
Thierry
On 2025-11-06 00:50:54 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
On Thursday 06 November 2025 01:33:23 Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
Once again, Kmail has trashed the filters that route mail into my subfolders. Is it safe for me to copy the list from an old copy, or will that mess up kmailrc? I can once again recreate the 178 filters manually, but that takes a long time and introduces errors.
Leslie
I sure don't have that many filters, but when I make a new TDE install, I copy the kmail directory and the files from /.trinity/share/config (kmailrc, kmail2rc, kmail.eventrc and kmailsnippertrc) and never had anything messed up.
Thierry
I copied kmailrc, kmail.eventrc and kmailsnippertrc from a backup to my current .trinity/share/config/ (there was no kmail2rc) and restarted kmail, but I still see only the base folders (inbox, outbox, sent-mail, trash, drafts, templates) even though, when viewing kmailrc, the filters are all present. (See the attached image.)
Why don't they appear in the Folder list? How can I fix this?
Leslie
On Friday 07 November 2025 04:01:50 Leslie Turriff wrote:
I copied kmailrc, kmail.eventrc and kmailsnippertrc from a backup to my current .trinity/share/config/ (there was no kmail2rc) and restarted kmail, but I still see only the base folders (inbox, outbox, sent-mail, trash, drafts, templates) even though, when viewing kmailrc, the filters are all present. (See the attached image.)
Why don't they appear in the Folder list? How can I fix this?
Leslie
I wonder if your problem is not that kmail "trashed" your filters but that it somehow ignores kmailrc (I don't know why however).
In your OP you said "once again", but I never in over 20 years had kmail do something like that, so it seems directly linked to your settings.
I haven't used SUSE in the last years (I used it when it was SuSE) so it's difficult to guess what it could be. We need someone with a deeper understanding of kmail works.
I've been moving kmail's files between machines several time and ever only had to recreate the indexes and re-enter some passwords.
Thierry
Anno domini 2025 Wed, 5 Nov 19:33:23 -0500 Leslie Turriff via tde-users scripsit:
Once again, Kmail has trashed the filters that route mail into my subfolders. Is it safe for me to copy the list from an old copy, or will that mess up kmailrc? I can once again recreate the 178 filters manually, but that takes a long time and introduces errors.
IMO there should be no problem. In fact, I do this all the time when syncing my home directory.
Nik
Leslie
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