On Monday, 16 April 2018 1:20:10 AM NZST cr wrote: > On Sunday, 15 April 2018 2:48:48 PM NZST Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > > The read/unread status is actually part of the filename. > > I.e. a "read" message's filename contains an "S" (for Seen). > > > > The new/cur is something else if I remember correctly. > > > > Cheers, > > Kevin > > Ah, now that appears to be consistent with what I can see. My 'Ford' > folder in kmail showed just 3 unread messages and just 3 of the files didn't > have 'S' at the end of their filename. I just marked them as 'read' in > Kmail and all the files now are suffixed 'S'. > > Ford/'cur' and 'new' between them contain 119 files and Kmail is showing... > 119 messages! So all present and correct. That's a relief. Thanks > > Cheers > > Chris
Umm, I've done some Googling. Apparently, according to the Maildir specification, unread messages should be in 'new' and should be moved to 'cur' when they are "found by a cognizant maildir reading process" (whatever that means) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir It should also attach suffixes such as 'S' for 'Seen' etc - which Kmail evidently does. My conclusion is that, for my purposes, I don't need to worry about 'cur' or 'new', the files all show up as messages in the respective Kmail folder. Chris
