No, you're right, it does use a profile system.  It stores them in the
kmailrc file (found in $HOME/.kde./share/config).  But I knew that, and
deleted that file along with the $HOME/Mail directory, to make KMail forget
"everything".  Except, alas, that wasn't everything.  There's still
something somewhere that knows what the last message I retrieved from the
server was.

Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Grover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:19 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: (clug-talk) KMail question
>
>
> I haven't worked with KMail so may be out to lunch on this...
>
> Does Kmail use the "profile" concept so that more than one user can use it
> (under one login).  If so, then you should be able to just remove the
> profile, restart Kmail, then recreate the profile - at that point
> it should
> assume it's a new mailbox and get the contents of the mailbox from the
> server.
>
> But, with the way logins are handled under Linux and the
> configuration files
> are stored, I'm thinking a profile isn't used.
>
> My thoughts...
>
> Shawn
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Bruseker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: (clug-talk) KMail question
>
>
> Actually, the storage format part I figured out.  I just changed
> the setting
> to mbox and that was that (the only thing that bugged me about
> that is that
> KMail defaults to maildir, but if you change the setting, it
> doesn't change
> the existing mail folder to the new format, but no worries, I got around
> that by just deleting ~/Mail and letting KMail recreate it in
> mbox format).
>
> The problem I have is that it isn't getting the messages off the server
> again.  I suspect it has stored, somewhere, the index (on the
> server) of the
> last message it retrieved, and is only picking up messages received by the
> server after that index value.  I want it to go back and get ALL the
> messages on the server again.  That's what I need help with.
>
> Ian
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Garth Meisel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:35 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) KMail question
> >
> >
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> > Kmail is TOTALLY configurable so there shouldn't be a problem
> > getting it to do
> > exactly what you want.  I think what you're expecting or wanting for the
> > storage end is "Store as Flat Files."  That way they're just
> > plain text and
> > not where you need to open Kmail in order to view or manipulate certain
> > messages.
> > Is this what you're wanting?
> >
>

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