I complained about this a long time ago to KMail developers. KMail does not store the metadata (Flags and the like) back into the file, but only in the index files. (For some performance reason, but Mutt is faster and does it) Now once touched with Mutt, Mutt writes back the metadata into the mbox, the KMail indexes are corrupt and one loses all the flags (read-replied deleted, etc). I don't know if this is also true for the maildir-format, but KMail is definitely locking in the user with this behavior. If you only have a terminal, you can't read your mail remote. The only way out is using IMAP and accessing it from different clients. If it wouldn't be for the Kontact-integration, I would have abandoned KMail for that reason as I hate lock-in scenarios. AFAIK, this hasn't been fixed. If I get more time, I will try again with samples to use Mutt and KMail together over a folder in maildir-format. Best, Rigo Am Friday 23 September 2005 19:29 verlautbarte Theo Schmidt : > >Here, from directory ~/.Mail, is the ls -al listing for one (mbox) > > folder (named tldp) with the three indexes. To start, you might > > want to experiment with just one mail folder. Delete all three of > > the .index files, then restart kmail (assuming you shut it down) > > and try to access the mail in that folder. After a short delay, > > I'm hopeful that it will be ok. > > > >-rw------- 1 rhk rhk 868526 Sep 19 16:05 tldp > >-rw------- 1 rhk rhk 99043 Sep 19 16:05 .tldp.index > >-rw-r--r-- 1 rhk rhk 937 Sep 19 16:05 .tldp.index.ids > >-rw-r--r-- 1 rhk rhk 5425 Aug 24 07:28 .tldp.index.sorted > > > > This has solved it, thanks! Kmail used to compact mailboxes on > closing; it looks like it no longer does so.
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