On Sunday 31 May 2015 15:01:10 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 31 May 2015 13:18:06 Mick wrote:
> > You could look into ~/Mail/ or wherever you keep your mails and find the
> > Inbox directory.  Then copy any messages you want shown there manually.
> > The index will be recreated when you restart Kmail, or if you click on
> > 'Recreate Index' under the Properties/Maintenance of the folder.
> > 
> > Also, under Settings/Configure Kmail/Misc there is a field to specify
> > which folder to open on start up.
> > 
> > Some combination of the above should work.
> 
> The trouble is that the in-box folder is missing, so there's no way to
> manipulate what's in it.

I appreciate the inbox folder is not shown in the GUI.  Is there an inbox 
directory under your main mail storage?  This is mine:

$ ls -al Mail/inbox/
total 92
drwx------  5 michael michael  4096 May 31 15:23 .
drwx------ 16 michael michael  4096 May 31 13:18 ..
drwx------  2 michael michael 73728 May 30 23:38 cur
drwx------  2 michael michael  4096 Jul 17  2010 new
drwx------  2 michael michael  4096 May 30 23:25 tmp

You can check if your messages are shown under ../inbox/cur

If not you can manually copy them there.

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Regards,
Mick