I'm running Fedora-18 with KDE. I'm accessing mail from the mBox file /var/mail/tim and this is working fine. (I was previously trying to access mail from /var/spool/mail/tim which is linked to /var/mail/tim but that did not work. Evidently KMail has some problem with linked files?)
The only problem I have now is that mail that I delete with KMail, eg mail deleted by my spam filter, is not deleted from the mBox file /var/mail/tim .
Is there any KMail setting that will allow this? If there is none, is there any way outside KMail of doing this?
It seems incidentally that I cannot include the mBox email in "Local Folders" on KMail. This seems to be set to an maildir setup at /home/tim/.local/share/local-mail , which I am not using and as far as I can see cannot delete, at least within KMail=>Settings .
Maybe I have to do something within System Settings?
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
On 6-27-13 14:01:20 Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm running Fedora-18 with KDE. I'm accessing mail from the mBox file /var/mail/tim and this is working fine.
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The only problem I have now is that mail that I delete with KMail, eg mail deleted by my spam filter, is not deleted from the mBox file /var/mail/tim .
I can confirm this. It began a few months ago and persists to today.
Is there any KMail setting that will allow this? If there is none, is there any way outside KMail of doing this?
I occasionally just run /usr/bin/mail from a command line and hit "d" to delete the mails I have already read in Kmail.
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