I'd bet that you could trick it by referring to the mail server in a different way (Use an IP address rather than the Domain Name, or vice versa.)
You're right that there probably a better way, but I suspect this would also work. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Bruseker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: (clug-talk) KMail question > So, I'm playing around with KMail. I set up my account, I set it to leave > the messages on the server, I retrieved my mail. All was good. Then I > noticed that the Mail directory was in maildir format, not mbox. I prefer > mbox, so I changed the setting in KMail, but discovered that this change has > no effect on existing directories. So I blew away the Mail directory (no > worries, all the mail is still on the server, so I'm losing nothing), > deleted kmailrc, and started from scratch (or so I thought). All fine, all > set up, Mail directory is in the right format now, but I check for mail, and > it doesn't find all the old messages it pulled down the first time (they are > still there, I'm positive of it). It only pulls down new mail received > after the first try. Does anyone (I can think of one person who probably > will ;-) ) know where KMail keeps the "last message downloaded" setting or > whatever similar item. I want to reset that so I can truly start from > scratch. Or is there a setting on the client side? Is it going off > something on the server side? > > (Oh, RedHat 8.0 is the distro in question, if it matters). > > Thanks. > > Ian > > >
