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On Friday 17 January 2003 11:52, Ian Bruseker wrote:
> 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
suggestion: in future, create a new folder, drag the old messages to the new
folder, delete the old folder (even if it means an rm -rf from the command
line in the case of the inbox or other system folder), rename the folder you
just dropped the messages into (or in the case of system folders, exit kmail
and start it again and then DnD the messages back to the system folder)
> 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.
AFAIK this is kept on the server (pop3 has a UIDL command which tells the
client what the last message you looked at was).. which means you may need to
gain access to the mbox dir on your mail server, or try to access it with
another email client to get those msgs (which you can then copy over as an
mbox file into your ~/Mail dir)
> Does anyone (I can think of one person who probably will ;-) )
*innocence*
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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