Luca Berra wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:23:36PM +0200, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: >>David Walser ha scritto: >>>As Levi pointed out it *might* be OK if they at least use the same format, >>>but there could still be locking issues. >> >>Now I finally understand what you mean. Independently of the mail folder >>prefix choosen >>for KMail, Kmail fills LOCAL $HOME/Mail with dirs (drafts, trash, etc.) and >>indexes working files. So you are pointing out that there could be problems >>in the case LOCAL machine == IMAP SERVER. I wonder why Kmail places its > > i would state that elm used $HOME/Mail for mbox formatted mail folders, > and has been doing it for at least the last 15 years, so if kmail writes > something different it is kmail which is broken *grin*
well until recently Kmail was doing mbox in $HOME/Mail also, which was OK. as far as it now using Maildir format by default and still saving it there, well I won't argue with you that it's broken :o)