On Wednesday 17 March 2004 00:37, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On March 16, 2004 11:20, Cory Syvenky wrote:
> > I'm wondering if anybody can help me understand something fairly
> > strange. I've been using KMail as my mail application for more than two
> > years. This will be changing to Apple's Mail application. Since I am
> > transitioning between applications, naturally I'll need to import all
> > the data from KMail. Fortunately for me there is a built-in import
> > wizard, so I ran it and imported KMail's mailboxes. What I ended up
> > with is a bunch of folders, some starting with . (ones that have
> > subfolders), and some with just a plain title. To my surprise my
> > "inbox" folder has 2527 messages (some dating back to July 7th)! How I
> > could have so many messages?
>
> probably because you haven't compacted you mailboxes in a long time and
> Mail.app's import support is so braindamaged that it can't figure out how
> to deal with mbox files properly. not entirely surprising as mail seems to
> be oddly difficult to get right.
I thought KMail compacts all my mailboxes on close (at least that what it says
that it is doing. Hmm? there are some interesting options in KMail's
configure dialogue.
- By default, message folders on disk are: Directories ("maildir" format).
- On program exit, perform the following tasks: Expire old messages
(unchecked).
Does that mean that I'm not even using mbox format for my mail? If I change
that first option will it convert all my existing mail?
Btw, I'm using POP3 Shawn (not IMAP)...and I purge after ever session.
cS
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