<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Tim wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I've not used kmail for years, but it occurs to me that if you have<br>
options to immediately delete mail, that it would be logical for the<br>
trash folder to be removed if you have such a setting set. So, you<br>
could look for such settings.<br></blockquote><div><br>If there is such a setting, I can't find it. In Settings->Configure KMail->Misc->Folders there are a couple of checkboxes -- ''Ask for confirmation before moving all messages to trash" and "Empty local trash folder on program exit" -- but nothing that tells me where to find the trash folder's contents in any event.<br>
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It also occurs to me that you could have accidentally deleted a trash<br>
folder, or accidentally dragged and dropped it into another folder.<br>
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It could be worth your while to create another user account on your<br>
system, log in as that user, then fiddle around with kmail, without<br>
risking changing what's currently still working, and without risking<br>
losing your mail. You could try to deliberately break things, to see if<br>
you can discover how your trash folder disappeared, where it might have<br>
gone, and how to get it back.<br></blockquote><div><br>Ok. I just did a totally fresh install in a VM. KMail definitely only has "inbox," "outbox," and "sent-mail" under Local Folders. So it's not like I accidentally deleted it.<br>
<br>I tried creating a folder called "Trash" and deleted a message. Still not there. I tried "Search in all folders" for something that positively must match a deleted message. Nothing.<br><br>I'm beginning to think that the KMail developers are all snickering to each other as they watch me through my webcam.<br>
<br>-Alan<br><br><br></div></div></div>