Kmail and IMAP

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Wed Oct 5 14:10:21 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 14:12 -0600, kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
wrote:
> Hi List;
> 
> I just setup a new IMAP account in Kmail and I see the following folders under 
> the main account name:
> 
> Inbox
> from
> mbox
> razor-agent.log
> Sent
> Trash
> 
> I'm confused about all these folders. I alreeady have a Trash and Sent folders 
> under the main 'Local Folders' folder in Kmail however the sysytem seems to 
> place the sent and trash items only from the new IMAP account there.  Even 
> more confusing is the from, mbox and razor-agent.log folders. I always show 1 
> unread message in the from however if I open the from folder I get an error 
> that says:
> "Error while querying the server status"
> Unable to open folder from. The server replied : SELECT failed unable to open 
> file from.
> 
> Also the inbox and mbox folders seem to contain 100% duplicate messages. Is 
> there an easy way to hide or otherwise disable the un-needed folders ?
> 

This may be a server issue.  I just added an IMAP account to kmail and
only saw the folders I expected.  My server is Cyrus based.

What does evolution do?

Bob...




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