Bug#338968: kmail: KMail uses ~/Mail on first run without informing user
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.3.2-3
Severity: wishlist
I have been a long term Mutt user and have stored my mail in ~/Mail
which is apparently special to KMail (unbeknownst to me until today).
I opted to use KMail today for a second POP account and noticed it
took a long time to open and once it did all of my current Mutt folders
were displayed. Worse yet, it created several new directories under
~/Mail and reset all of the access times on the Mutt folders which
really messed up Mutt's ability to tell me of new mail for a time.
At the very least, KMail should notice when it is run for the first
time that ~/Mail already exists (especially if KMail's private
directories are not yet created) and prompt the user whether to use
~/Mail or offer to create a new directory and warn the user of the
consequences.
KMail should not assume that it is the only mailer used. Right now the
only way I can use KMail is to rename ~/Mail to something else and
reconfigure Procmail and Mutt.
- Nate >>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.2-6.1 KDE core libraries
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-2 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkcal2a 4:3.3.2-3 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdenetwork2 4:3.3.2-3 KDE Network library
ii libkdepim1 4:3.3.2-3 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra0a 4:3.3.2-3 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.3.2-3 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.3.2-3 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1a 4:3.3.2-3 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.4-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii perl 5.8.7-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-4 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.3.2-1 KDE I/O Slaves
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.3.2-3 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii procmail 3.22-11 Versatile e-mail processor
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