Am Montag 05 November 2007 schrieb Kevin Krammer: > On Sunday 04 November 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Dear maintainers, > > due to your hints I stopped kmail and deleted the FILES ~/Mail/drafts, > > ~/Mail/trash, ~Mails/sent-mails and ~/Mail/outbox. > > Then started kmail again and got four new DIRECTORIES with > > subdirectories "cur", "new" and "tmp". > > > > I suppose, this is the correct form, it should be. > > The other form would be correct as well (single file, mbox format). This > directory based format is the "maildir" variant. > > One of the things you have reported earlier, the folder being empty but the > file not being zero sized, is a result of the mbox format. > Deleted message are just marked as deleted, since actual deleting would > require to copy all others to a temporary file and then rename this file to > the original name. > > To avoid this on every single deletion, the copying/renaming only happend > when the respective folder is "compressed". > > > I am using kamil and my home directory now for several years (yes, Linux > > is real stable and now since 5 years I never had to reinstall), so I > > suppose, the mentioned FILES are a relict of an older version of kmail, > > aren`t they ???? > > Yes, mbox is the older default format, but since it has its own qualities, > it can still be chosen when new folders are created but maildir is now the > default. > > > O.k., if everything is working fine now (as it strongly seems), how can I > > reimport my drafts ? Is there some way. > > It should be possible to just rename the respective files, e.g. > rename "drafts" to "drafts.backup" and copy them into ~/Mail while KMail is > not running. KMail should then at startup pick up this new file as a folder > with the same name and you can copy/move the messages to the new > destination. > > Cheers, > Kevin
Hi Kevin, thank you for your help. This is explaining it. I got the solution now. It is just because of a relict of old kmail versions. You can safely close the bug. Everything is working fine now. Thank you very much for your help ! Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]