KMail local folder

Daniel Vrátil dvratil at redhat.com
Tue Jun 25 12:53:22 UTC 2013


On Tuesday 25 of June 2013 14:39:32 Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 of June 2013 12:35:12 Timothy Murphy wrote:
<snip>
> > 
> > I take it an MBox file is a file of email in mbox format.
> > The file /var/spool/mail/tim (which is linked to /var/mail/tim)
> > contains email in mbox format.
> 
> Indeed this is a bug in the MBox resource. When I add an MBox resoure
> pointing to /var/mail/dvratil it does not work, but when I configure it to
> use /var/spool/mail/dvratil, it works as expected. So MBox resource does
> not cope with symlinks.

Hmm, I was wrong, sorry. It works for me even with symlink, it just didn't 
trigger synchronization after settings change automatically so I got confused.

> 
> /me will fix :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
> 
> > I can read it eg with mutt, which finds this file automatically.
> > 
> > So I can sum up my problem with kmail(2):
> > mutt finds my local email automagically, so why doesn't kmail?
> > 
> > 
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Daniel Vrátil
Associate Software Engineer, KDE Desktop Team
Red Hat, Inc

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