Bug#449118: Additional information
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
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