[gentoo-amd64] Re: Replacement for Thunderbird.

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au> posted
200711180906.41607.paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au, excerpted below, on  Sun,
18 Nov 2007 09:06:41 +1100:

>> That is a good question. I cannot support all the votes for kmail. If
>> you want to switch to mdir based mailboxes and you want to use kmail
>> just as a local mailbox reader, the first thing that kmail does, is to
>> move all your mails into some obscure ~/kde3.5/share/apps/kmail/...
>> directory. After that, your mails are not available for other
>> mail-clients any more. nice behaviour, isn't it? I couldn't find a way
>> to tell kmail not to do that, but to read the mails from the
>> preconfigured place instead.
>> 
>> A second point is, that kmail does not scale well for large mailboxes.
> 
> 
> I've been using kmail for years, and it's always been happy to keep my
> email under ~/Mail and I have no trouble using mutt to access the kmail
> directory when I an logged in via ssh.

Same here, only I keep my mail under /mail/<user>/.  I did look to see 
where the setting is in the current GUI and didn't see it, but found it 
in ~/.kde3.5/share/config/kmailrc, in the [general] section, 
folders=<path>.  I suppose I set it years ago, and every new version has 
picked it up from the old settings.

Now, the dir you mentioned, ~/kde3.5/share/apps/kmail, does contain a 
bunch of state settings, apparently the read/unread record for all the 
mail folders under the root location (/mail/<user>/ here), but that's 
simply app config information, stored in one of the two standard user KDE 
config dirs (the other being ~/kde3.5/share/config), not the mail itself.

As for scaling, I too have seen no issues there.

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