Bug 161613 - Folder path entry contains .kde, causes problems on upgrade to KDE4
Summary: Folder path entry contains .kde, causes problems on upgrade to KDE4
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: config compatibility (show other bugs)
Version: SVN trunk (KDE 4)
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2008-05-04 16:02 UTC by Stefan Monov
Modified: 2008-05-04 17:41 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Monov 2008-05-04 16:02:04 UTC 
Version:           1.9.6 enterprise (using KDE 3.5.9)

The [General] section of kmailrc contains this line:
folders=$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail

For some reason it didn't change when I switched to kde4 (even though I started with clean config and imported all the mail), and then... I deleted ~/.kde, assuming everything I needed was in ~/.kde4. So I lost all my mail.
Could kmail be changed to always use $KDEHOME/share/apps/kmail/mail, rather than rely on an (unreliable) config setting?
Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2008-05-04 17:41:05 UTC 
> For some reason it didn't change when I switched to kde4 (even though I started with clean config and imported all the mail)
I've just tested this with a clean config, and for me, the entry was folders=$HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail, so that works.

And for old configs, that is the expected behavior, since your old config file is in .kde, together with your old mail.