Have you tried deleting the receiving account and then re-creating it?

~Scott

On January 17, 2003 01:25 pm, Ian Bruseker wrote:
> 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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