[OT?] Easy-to-use archiving mail in kontact?

[Ingo Klöcker]

Am Donnerstag, 13. Juli 2006 10:17 schrieb T. Ribbrock:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 03:26:51PM +0200, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > Exporting single folders as mbox is possible by selecting all
> > messages in a folder and then saving them, i.e. Ctrl+A, Ctrl+S.
>
> Ah, that helps, thanks. I'm still pondering writing a little tool
> using perl+kdialog, though - that tool could write a complete folder
> (including subfolders) to CD-ROM and also restore it. That should
> help most users here immensely. In conjunction with that I'm
> wondering about something:
>
> kontact from KDE 3.5 as supplied by SuSE seems to store the "Local
> Folders" somewhere in ~/.kde, but detects the presence of ~/Mail and
> uses it. In that case, it adds a "folders=" entry to "[General]" in
> kmailrc.

It always adds a folders= entry. Starting with KDE 3.5 (or 3.4 ?) the 
standard location was changed from ~/Mail to 
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
Two reasons for this change were:
- Some users did apparently delete ~/Mail because they didn't know why 
it's there. Hiding the mail storage hopefully prevent users from doing 
so.
- The new path should make it much clearer that the mail storage must 
not be accessed by any other applications than KMail.

> The proko2 client (which, as far as I understand it, is older) does
> no such thing - as far as I can see, it always uses ~/Mail for "Local
> Folders" (which is my preference anyway - I don't like hiding the
> local folders somewhere in ~/.kde).

Since the proko2 client is based on the KDE 3.3 (?) version of KMail it 
still uses the old location.

> Is my understanding of this correct?

Yes.

Regards,
Ingo
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