On Tuesday 05 December 2006 17:27, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 8:58, Thomas Güttler wrote: > > If email is stored under $HOME the path to the > > inbox directory should be $HOME/Maildir/Inbox/. > > we used to use this (well, ~/Mail) as the default but more innocent users > occasionally ended up deleting (!) their email since they didn't know what > it was. after all, they couldn't remember making it so how important could > it be? ;) > > so one may want to be very cautious about auto-creating user-visible > directories that contain data.
I'd jsut like to add that having this user visible ~/Mail directory resulted in several distributors pacthing KMail to move it elsewhere. Maybe $XDG_DATA_HOME/Mail, which usually will be ~/.local/Mail Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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