kmail eating my maildir???

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 03 September 2009 16:32:28 Honza 'thingwath' Bartoš wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Anne Wilson<annew at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 September 2009 15:41:20 Honza 'thingwath' Bartoš wrote:
> >> 2009/9/3 Christoph Höger <choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de>:
> >> > I am using no IMAP. This is a plain Maildir. I simply have my mails
> >> > inside a good old maildir - which is emptied by KMail.
> >>
> >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55421
> >
> > That bug report was in 2003, and is totally irrelevant to today's KMail.
>
> I'd like to be wrong, but I'm afraid that the bug is still (yes, I
> know how old it is) completely relevant, unfortunately.
>
> If it wasn't, there would be a way to set up KMail to directly use a
> Maildir placed somewhere in my $HOME and not copy or move any mail to
> its own storage. In the same way that, for example, mutt does. I tried
> to find how to do that, and failed miserably…

I'm sorry, I simply don't understand this thread.  Some time back - not as far 
as 2003, I think, Mandriva stored mail in ~/Mail - and kmail always worked 
with it.  I have never seen any indication that KMail either copies or moves 
mail from its origin.

The whole discussion is being made inpenetrable, too, by the use of a mail 
format name as a directory.  Maildir is a format, as is mbox.  What format of 
mail is this question about?

Christoph seems to say that he is talking about the Maildir format.  	If he 
looks, for instance, at Inbox he will see no mail.  If he looks at Inbox/cur 
his mail should be there.

I use maildir format, with kmail, for my mail, and thunderbird has no 
difficulty finding it.  I have never used mutt, but I suggest that it may well 
be looking in the wrong place.

Anne
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