Re: interesting, but...

[Corey Schuhen <corey_schuhen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Just my 2c worth... and thats an aussie 2c..

I intend to use offlineIMAP with Kmail also. As I see it there are two wa=
ys to=20
configure Maildir folders in kmail. One is to use the maildir folder as o=
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of kmails folders, to do this you need to create a new folder in kmail or=
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make sure an existing folder is in maildir format (right-click->propertie=
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b.t.w. you can not change the format of the default folders i.e. inbox,=20
trash, sent... The problem with this way is that a running kmail may not =

realise that offlineimap has put new mails in as this is not how it likes=
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work. Once this is done you must configure offlineimap to sync with this =

maildir folder.

The other way is to set up your already synched maildir folders as a mail=
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source (i.e. Settings->configure.kmail->network->receiving) I think that =
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must be how you did it. In this case kmail will delete all mail that is i=
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that maildir folder as it copies it to its own inbox. Unfortunately there=
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no don't delete messages option. So I think that the problem you are havi=
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is with kmail itself and not offlineimap. Once I get my offlineimap worki=
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(It don't like my notes server, John is helping here) I might have more=20
information on how to best make this work with kmail.

Hope that all made sense.

Corey




On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 06:31 am, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:15:32PM -0400, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> > I have mail on my ISP's imap server.  I want to be able to read from
> > work or home.  Right now, I run fetchmail at work from cron, so while=

>
> This sounds like a perfect situation for OfflineIMAP.
>
> > Then I run offlineimap again, and I see it deleted all the mails on
> > the server.  Problem is, I didn't actually read them yet.
>
> This should NOT happen.  In fact, I've never seen it do this before, ev=
er.
> Please try running with:
>
> offlineimap -d imap,maildir -1 -o
>
> and mail me the output for a time when it deletes those mails.
>
> Are you sure that you didn't delete the mails in any way?
>
> > So, is this problem solvable?  I guess offlineimap has no way to know=

> > if I actually _read_ the articles, only that my MUA grabbed them,
> > right?
>
> Well, it doesn't really care if you've read them or not.  But it does k=
now.
> Your mail reader will set a "read" flag.  Normally, though, OfflineIMAP=

> will not delete a message from your IMAP server until you delete the
> message in your client MUA.  That is, it synchronizes flags and deletes=
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> It should never delete a message that you have not explicitly deleted
> somewhere.
>
> -- John

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Corey Schuhen,
Software Engineer,
B Eng ME (Hons), B InfTech

BEELINE Technologies R&D
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West End 4101
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