On Sonntag, 15. April 2018 14:07:24 CEST cr wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 02:36:07PM -0300, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > > El 14 abr. 2018, a la(s) 11:01, cr <c...@orcon.net.nz> escribió: > > > One possible snag I can see is that kmail has created, in each folder > > > such as 'cars', subfolders called 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'. Typically > > > 'tmp' is empty but both 'cur' and 'new' are full of messages. How does > > > kmail (or akonadi?) assign messages to 'cur' or 'new'? If it > > > arbitrarily shifts messages from one to the other then my copying idea > > > will likely result in numerous duplicate messages. > > > > > > I've tried the Kmail documentation but it doesn't seem to throw any > > > light on this.> > > > > It's the standard Maildir format. 'new' has unread messages, 'cur' has > > read messages. They will be moved between folders when you mark > > messages > > > as read or unread. > > Thanks for that. It's useful to know how it should work. > > (Inspection shows that I have many more files in some 'new' subdirectories > than Kmail shows as 'unread'. Evidently akonadi is failing to notice them, > for some reason. I need to investigate that.)
The read/unread status is actually part of the filename. I.e. a "read" message's filename contains an "S" (for Seen). The new/cur is something else if I remember correctly. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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