Re: OfflineIMAP and KMail

["David L. Emerson" <demerson3x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Josh,

nice to hear you got it working! I have been away from my computer for a 
week...

The patch I suggested for 5.99.4 is pretty much identical for 6.0.0, 
except the line numbers have changed. There is not any explicit call to 
mkdir('.') -- rather, there is a call to os.mkdirs with a passed 
parameters, which in this case turns out to be '.' -- so I just added a 
line to check if the passed param is '.' in which case it does not make 
the call.

I also ran across that problem of everything in the inbox getting 
deleted -- it happened when I was trying to set stuff up, if I deleted 
my local copies and did not also delete the offlineimap metadata (found 
in the metadata folder defined in .offlineimaprc) So if you delete 
everything and start over -- which I had to do several times in order 
to get things set up -- you've got to also delete that metadata, so 
offlineimap doesn't think the deletion was something that should be 
propagated to the server. Of course, if you change around your 
nametrans, it has the APPEARANCE of deleted messages as well. This is 
also a good argument for setting up a test account to configure first, 
before actually syncing your main account. Of course, that's easier in 
some situations than others.

I'm fairly certain it is possible to make folders "flat", i.e. NOT 
subfolders of INBOX. In fact, I believe I had such a configuration 
previously, but I decided on the subfolders-of-inbox approach; I don't 
remember why. At any rate, the way to do it is by tweaking the 
nametrans function.

As for creating a FAQ ... the thing is, I don't know how frequently the 
question is actually asked! And it'd be a lot of work ... let 'em look 
through the mailing list archives :)  or if you want to prepare one, 
power to ya, and I'll be happy to contribute a bit. Of course, since 
you've just gone through it, it's probably fresher in your mind. But it 
would be really nice to get this well documented, as I would hate to 
have to set it all up again myself without good documentation...

~David.