Bug 283712

Summary: setting of kmail2 very confusing
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: Daniel Moyne <daniel.moyne>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.99.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
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Description Daniel Moyne 2011-10-10 15:39:17 UTC
Version:           1.99.0
OS:                Linux

I have folders like "inbox" and "sent-mail" though I have french language selected !
I take the opportunity of this message to bring forward the following issues after upgrading to kubuntu 11.10 :
(1) data location
In kmail2rc there is no more a line like :
folders[$ie]=${KMAIL_HOME}
which allowed the user to control where he wanted his data to be (in particular not in "/home/the_user/..." ; in my case I could even have on the local net 2 machines accessing the same data through nfs ; apparently now I have lost control of this.
(2) bogofilter
Before with bogofilter I was sorthing out spam and non spam mails in specific folders Spam and NonSpam ; from time to time I was training bogofilter with a script with commands like :
bogofilter -sv -B $dir_data/Spam/cur
bogofilter -nv -B $dir_data/NonSpam/cur
where $dir_data=KMAIL_HOME/.Bogofilter.directory
How can I manage this now as I have lost control of the data location.
(4) migration
As it did not work I had to rebuild a fresh new Kmail2 app with a new user ; then copy the configuration files of this user (including akonadi, kmailrc, local-mail, !) to my user and then migrate data with Kmail before moving these folders where I wanted within Kmail ; but I ended-up with some folders where I could not put French names !

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
I experience the same migration failure when trying to upgrade fom kubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 ; in this case as my /home partition became too big I had to give up upgrade and reinstall kubuntu 10.04.

Actual Results:  
I can send and receive mailsbut I don not have a consistent achitecture of folder names ; size of my "/home" partition is now close to 100 % very likely due to migration mail data where I did not want it to be

Expected Results:  
control of data location was expected 

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.0.0-12-generic
Compiler: gcc
Comment 1 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 18:19:52 UTC
This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.
Comment 2 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 22:08:56 UTC
Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.