Bug 104583

Summary: KMail-documentation speaks of ~/Mail, while some distributions use ~/.mail or ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail
Product: [Websites] docs.kde.org Reporter: Rinse De Vries <rinse>
Component: generalAssignee: Documentation Editorial Team <kde-doc-english>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Rinse De Vries 2005-04-26 12:49:54 UTC 
Version:           1.8 (using KDE 3.4.0 Level "a" , unofficial build of SUSE )
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.5-7.151-default

Hi,

the documentation of kmail reads this about the location of e-maildirectories:


#. Tag: para
#: faq.docbook:106
#, no-c-format

[..]
and your mail is saved in <filename class=\"directory\">~/Mail</filename>. 
[..]

Allthough this is true for a vanilla kmail installation, some distributions use their own location, like ~/.mail on mandrake, or ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail on suse (9.3)

This leadst to confusion amongst kmail users on those distro's, because they can't find ~/Mail to backup their e-mails.

IMHO the FAQ should inform the users about this :)

Rinse
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-04-26 13:50:09 UTC 
The new default is ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail: if kmail can't find a ~/Mail, it won't create it anymore.

As for distros that move the directory around, they should fix the documentation as well, shouldn't they?
Comment 2 Rinse De Vries 2005-04-26 14:25:11 UTC 
Op dinsdag 26 april 2005 13:50, schreef Thiago Macieira:

> The new default is ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail: if kmail can't find a
> ~/Mail, it won't create it anymore.


Ok, so the documentation should adept this new location 
>
> As for distros that move the directory around, they should fix the
> documentation as well, shouldn't they?

Indeed, but since they don't, and users most of the time blame the application 
in stead of the software vendor, I think it is a good idea to point out to 
the user that in some occasions, it is possible that the distribution they 
are using uses another maildirectory then the default of kmail.

Rinse
Comment 3 Lauri Watts 2005-05-08 22:32:07 UTC 
Fixed in the current development version