KMail with mBox format

[Garry T. Williams]

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.

[snip]

> 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.

[snip]

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Garry T. Williams