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
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