Bug 161613

Summary:	Folder path entry contains .kde, causes problems on upgrade to KDE4
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Stefan Monov <logixoul>
Component:	config compatibility	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	SVN trunk (KDE 4)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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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.