On 9/20/2007, Timothy Murphy (tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
Incidentally, as far as I can see one has to keep a Local account on kmail, as well as an IMAP account,
Dunno why it would be necessary. TBird doesn't have an easy way to lose the 'Local Folders' - maybe kmail has something similar that you are referring to? I just keep those collapsed and ignore them.
since eg sent mail goes to ~/Maildir/sent-mail/cur/ . I didn't find any kmail setting to change this.
???
'Special' folders are definable by the client - in TBird, I always use 'Sent', 'Drafts', 'Templates' and 'Trash' (these are the defaults too).
Also, I assume it is sensible to leave the trash folder on the local machine.
Sensible? No... but it is a personal preference...
I keep the Trash expiration (a TBird setting, not a server-side setting) separate from the defaults, set to delete messages older than 30 days - and I like having the trash on the IMAP server, but that is a personal preference.
I still think you are missing something about how IMAP works...
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Best regards,
Charles