I have a large amount of old emails in /var/spool/mail/tim/ on my laptop. I have created a KMail account specifying the MBox file /var/spool/mail/tim/. I have chosen Lock method: None
I found there was already a Local Folders account pointing to a Maildir folder at ~/.local/share/local-mail which in fact is empty. So I called the new account alice (the email comes from in.alice.it).
Unfortunately after setting up the MBox account as above I do not see the email in the /var/spool/ folder.
It is clear that I do not understand KMail accounts properly. Could some kind soul please enlighten me.
Should I perhaps delete the old "Local Folders" account, and use this name for the new account. Or is that irrelevant?
On Monday 24 of June 2013 23:41:14 Timothy Murphy wrote:
I have a large amount of old emails in /var/spool/mail/tim/ on my laptop. I have created a KMail account specifying the MBox file /var/spool/mail/tim/. I have chosen Lock method: None
I found there was already a Local Folders account pointing to a Maildir folder at ~/.local/share/local-mail which in fact is empty. So I called the new account alice (the email comes from in.alice.it).
Unfortunately after setting up the MBox account as above I do not see the email in the /var/spool/ folder.
It is clear that I do not understand KMail accounts properly. Could some kind soul please enlighten me.
Should I perhaps delete the old "Local Folders" account, and use this name for the new account. Or is that irrelevant?
Hi,
you can't remove "Local Folders" account, as it will be automatically added after next Akonadi start.
I'm not sure I understand it correctly (/me never used mbox), but shouldn't the configuration point to an actual file? /var/spool/mail/tim/ does not look like an MBox file to me :-))
Cheers, Dan
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Daniel Vrátil wrote:
On Monday 24 of June 2013 23:41:14 Timothy Murphy wrote:
I have a large amount of old emails in /var/spool/mail/tim/ on my laptop. I have created a KMail account specifying the MBox file /var/spool/mail/tim/. I have chosen Lock method: None
I found there was already a Local Folders account pointing to a Maildir folder at ~/.local/share/local-mail which in fact is empty. So I called the new account alice (the email comes from in.alice.it).
Unfortunately after setting up the MBox account as above I do not see the email in the /var/spool/ folder.
It is clear that I do not understand KMail accounts properly. Could some kind soul please enlighten me.
Should I perhaps delete the old "Local Folders" account, and use this name for the new account. Or is that irrelevant?
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you can't remove "Local Folders" account, as it will be automatically added after next Akonadi start.
OK. The fact that it is called "Local Folders" suggests that it could point to more than one folder, but it does not seem possible to add a second folder here.
I'm not sure I understand it correctly (/me never used mbox), but shouldn't the configuration point to an actual file? /var/spool/mail/tim/ does not look like an MBox file to me :-))
I take it an MBox file is a file of email in mbox format. The file /var/spool/mail/tim (which is linked to /var/mail/tim) contains email in mbox format. I can read it eg with mutt, which finds this file automatically.
So I can sum up my problem with kmail(2): mutt finds my local email automagically, so why doesn't kmail?
On Tuesday 25 of June 2013 12:35:12 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Daniel Vrátil wrote:
On Monday 24 of June 2013 23:41:14 Timothy Murphy wrote:
I have a large amount of old emails in /var/spool/mail/tim/ on my laptop. I have created a KMail account specifying the MBox file /var/spool/mail/tim/. I have chosen Lock method: None
I found there was already a Local Folders account pointing to a Maildir folder at ~/.local/share/local-mail which in fact is empty. So I called the new account alice (the email comes from in.alice.it).
Unfortunately after setting up the MBox account as above I do not see the email in the /var/spool/ folder.
It is clear that I do not understand KMail accounts properly. Could some kind soul please enlighten me.
Should I perhaps delete the old "Local Folders" account, and use this name for the new account. Or is that irrelevant?
=
you can't remove "Local Folders" account, as it will be automatically added after next Akonadi start.
OK. The fact that it is called "Local Folders" suggests that it could point to more than one folder, but it does not seem possible to add a second folder here.
I believe "Folders" refers to actual email folders (Inbox, Outbox, Trash, ...), not to the storage :-)
I'm not sure I understand it correctly (/me never used mbox), but shouldn't the configuration point to an actual file? /var/spool/mail/tim/ does not look like an MBox file to me :-))
I take it an MBox file is a file of email in mbox format. The file /var/spool/mail/tim (which is linked to /var/mail/tim) contains email in mbox format.
Indeed this is a bug in the MBox resource. When I add an MBox resoure pointing to /var/mail/dvratil it does not work, but when I configure it to use /var/spool/mail/dvratil, it works as expected. So MBox resource does not cope with symlinks.
/me will fix :)
Cheers, Dan
I can read it eg with mutt, which finds this file automatically.
So I can sum up my problem with kmail(2): mutt finds my local email automagically, so why doesn't kmail?
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On Tuesday 25 of June 2013 14:39:32 Daniel Vrátil wrote:
On Tuesday 25 of June 2013 12:35:12 Timothy Murphy wrote:
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I take it an MBox file is a file of email in mbox format. The file /var/spool/mail/tim (which is linked to /var/mail/tim) contains email in mbox format.
Indeed this is a bug in the MBox resource. When I add an MBox resoure pointing to /var/mail/dvratil it does not work, but when I configure it to use /var/spool/mail/dvratil, it works as expected. So MBox resource does not cope with symlinks.
Hmm, I was wrong, sorry. It works for me even with symlink, it just didn't trigger synchronization after settings change automatically so I got confused.
/me will fix :)
Cheers, Dan
I can read it eg with mutt, which finds this file automatically.
So I can sum up my problem with kmail(2): mutt finds my local email automagically, so why doesn't kmail?
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