On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> what are the contents of your current ~/Mail folder? (e.g. ls -la) The /Mail folders each have three folders: /cur /tmp and the third one I can't remember (it's my friend's computer and I'm not infront of it right now). Each of these folders look empty. There are 15 individual folders including the draft, inbox, outbox, send-mail, and trash. The hidden index and sorted files for each of these folders also show. I'm still googling (with not much success) and I have a few more questions: - what is the purpose of the index files (do the index files actually contain the emails) - why would the folders and hidden files only copy without showing the emails as files? - could the emails be saved in another folder (such as /.kde3/share or some other folder in the /home/user directory - if I've lost the emails, how should emails be copied and recovered in Kmail? Other comments: - I confirmed the permissions of /Mail and all its folders to be that of the user - The index files are up to date (not the default starter index files) - the size of the backup /Mail folder is the same as the old working /Mail folder (suggesting that the backup /Mail folder has all the emails) TIA Peter
