Bug 226611

Summary: Cannot configure mailbox folders
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Davor Cubranic <cubranic>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Davor Cubranic 2010-02-13 00:40:40 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

KMail 1.12.2 (KDE 4.3.2, KUbuntu 9.10 Karmic)
I created a new IMAP account, and KMail insists on showing every single file and folder in my home directory. I set up namespaces in account settings, clicked OK, and restarted KMail, nothing changes. I don't think the problem is in the mail server, because Mac OS's Mail.app has no problems showing only the real folders.
Comment 1 Davor Cubranic 2010-02-13 00:44:03 UTC 
This is what I had to do to fix the problem:
1. Create the account, and in the 'advanced' tab of the account creation dialog delete all the namespaces that were entered by the 'reload' button and enter my own ('mail')
 2. Exit KMail without expanding the new account in the folder tree
 3. Open kderc in the editor and locate the entry for the new account
 3. in the account section, delete the lines '1=', '2=', and 'Namespace='
 4. change the 'Namespace:mail=' to 'Namespace:mail=/'
 5. save kderc and start KMail
 6. now only the mail folders appear in the folder list

It looks like the namespace dialog does not produce correct config files.
Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:07:59 UTC 
Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.