Bug 62229

Summary: Another local folders location
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: paul s. romanchenko <kde>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description paul s. romanchenko 2003-08-06 09:32:09 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:          Linux

I have a number of mail folders in my own directory, I make pine to look into this directory and manage folders in it. I wish I could make kmail to manage folders the same way.
Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2003-08-07 01:21:50 UTC 
Subject: Re:  New: Another local folders location

Hint: You can probably use symbolic links for this. But please don't use 
pine and KMail on the same folders. KMail doesn't like that at all and 
you'll risk losing mail.
Comment 2 paul s. romanchenko 2003-08-07 08:30:21 UTC 
Subject: Re:  Another local folders location         

I symlink my directory into ~/Mail/ but KMail won't see it (even after restart). It still shows me plain folders in Mail but mydir.

Aug 6, Ingo Kl
Comment 3 Ingo Klöcker 2003-08-08 01:18:04 UTC 
Subject: Re:  Another local folders location

KMail expects the subdirectories that hold subfolders to have a special
name. The following should work (do this while KMail is _not_ running):
cd ~/Mail
touch external_folders
ln -s /path/to/the/other/local/folders/location .external_folders.directory

After starting KMail the external folders should show up under
"external_folders". Of course you can replace "external_folders" with
another name.
Comment 4 Luis Carvalho 2003-11-04 19:34:01 UTC 
This seems similar or duplicate of wish 14163.
Comment 5 illogic-al 2005-02-02 23:54:51 UTC 
indeed. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14163 ***