Bug 164700

Summary:	Maildir filename should be based on subject
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Stefan <graylox>
Component:	maildir	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.9.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Stefan 2008-06-22 22:23:05 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs
OS:                Linux

Instead of a cryptic filename it would be nice to have the subject of the mail as the filename (like it was handled under BeOS). It would allow the user to backup and/or archive at least the entire mail folder and make it easier to use the mails later and/or on another system without an email program. Especially because Kmail can only save a mail with the .mbox extention through the menu. The option to save an email as .txt file would be nice to.

Comment 1 Torgny Nyblom 2008-06-23 15:47:09 UTC

As far as I know KMail uses Maildir for the mail storage (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir).

The solution you propose would require much logic to ensure that no two messages share a file name or that no messages gets deleted and introduce another format for storing mail.

If you need the Subject of the mail run a simple grep in the files ("grep -E '^Subject:' ${dir} -rH" would give you a list of file names / Subjects).

Comment 2 Torgny Nyblom 2011-12-04 18:36:44 UTC

Closing due to lack of feedback and due to the fact that maildirs is not supposed to have the subject in the filenames (http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html).