Giuseppe Ghib� wrote: > David Walser ha scritto: >> Luca Berra wrote: >> >>>David Walser wrote: >>> >>> >>>>imap shouldn't use $HOME/Mail because other apps use that (Kmail etc). $HOME/mail >>>>might be safe. >>> >>>so what? >>>sorry, but i completely miss your point. >> >> >> As Levi pointed out it *might* be OK if they at least use the same format, but >> there could still be locking issues. > > Now I finally understand what you mean. Independently of the mail folder prefix > choosen > for KMail, Kmail fills LOCAL $HOME/Mail with dirs (drafts, trash, etc.) and indexes > working > files. So you are pointing out that there could be problems in the case LOCAL > machine == IMAP > SERVER.
Yep, which I am actually doing. > I wonder why Kmail places its custom working files into $HOME/Mail? IMHO it's not > much > legal to place there as default (why it doesn't use instead $HOME/.kmail?). Not arguing, just curious; why is $HOME/Mail not legal? Kmail probably should be using $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/Mail though. It's more consistent with other KDE apps. Probably the only reason it doesn't is historical. > Imagine every mail > client would do the same (e.g. mozilla, etc.)? For imapd using "Mail" or "mail" > would be OK, > because it places only shareable (from point of view of information) "mailboxes" and > not working > /temporary custom indexes there. > > Of course default IMAP mailsubdir could be "mail" instead of "Mail" (no pb. there) > but either > with this change or not, IMHO Kmail needs its default path (which is not the same as > "mail > prefix") to be changed too. I have no problem with that. > Bye. > Giuseppe.
