Bug 95323 - Support for multiple Mail folder trees
Summary: Support for multiple Mail folder trees
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kmail2
Classification: Applications
Component: folders (show other bugs)
Version: 4.8.4
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2004-12-17 08:19 UTC by David Baron
Modified: 2012-11-09 23:35 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description David Baron 2004-12-17 08:19:07 UTC
Version:           1.7.1 (using KDE 3.3.1,  (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-3)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.9-1-686-smp

Relating to 31498:

This is not "easily configured". I would like to be able to have a logon with its Mail folder that he fully owns (instead of all the sharing kludges with which I have been playing) and sharable folders (permissions set by administrator and honored and left alone by KMail!) to which users could save non-private messages for common purposes.

So one might have
My Mail----inbox
       ----etc
Public messages---category 1
       ----------category 2
       ----------etc
etc.

Should be straightforward to implement.
Comment 1 Till Adam 2004-12-17 08:30:32 UTC
On Friday 17 December 2004 08:19, David Baron wrote:

> This is not "easily configured". I would like to be able to have a logon
> with its Mail folder that he fully owns (instead of all the sharing kludges
> with which I have been playing) and sharable folders (permissions set by
> administrator and honored and left alone by KMail!) to which users could
> save non-private messages for common purposes.
>
> So one might have
> My Mail----inbox
>        ----etc
> Public messages---category 1
>        ----------category 2
>        ----------etc
> etc.

You can and should to this with an IMAP server running locally. It provides 
access control list based user management on a per folder basis, and allows 
to export the same folder on disk multiple times without concurrent access 
and locking problems.

> Should be straightforward to implement.

If you say so ....

Comment 2 David Baron 2004-12-17 08:57:03 UTC
Fair enough. Actually exim will distribute the mail to any mboxes I want and KMail need only display them and allow moving messages. It may or may not be really necessary or desirable to go to IMAP and Maildir and such (but I could be convinced :-))
Comment 3 Satish Alwani 2007-08-10 15:53:15 UTC
Can we have this similar to how thunderbird allows you to have multiple pop3 profiles each with its own top level local folder? I mean imap is great and all, but still this pop3 isnt really done away with. Would be nice to have  support for root level local folders
Comment 4 Aeriana 2008-09-30 03:46:48 UTC
I thought I'd reply to this one as bug #31498 is closed...

(In reply to comment #3)
> Can we have this similar to how thunderbird allows you to have multiple pop3
> profiles each with its own top level local folder? I mean imap is great and

I agree, I love the way how Mozilla/Thunderbird allows one to have its own top-level POP3 folders. That is an absolutely must for me. Filtering solutions or running a local IMAP server just doesn't seem like a clean/convenient way to do it. However, my issues with using Mozilla/Thunderbird right now is that they do not currently support maildir, which makes backing up huge mbox files a pain.

> all, but still this pop3 isnt really done away with. Would be nice to have 
> support for root level local folders
> 

Indeed, some of us still rely a lot on POP3 and having top-level POP3 folders just like the IMAP ones would be sweet.

Now, I'm not quite sure what the OP was referring to in regards to the permissions thing, but I've had a quick look and it seems multiple top-level POP3 folders will not be trivial to implement, starting with accountdialog.cpp I presume.

Nevertheless, I'm going to try to implement this, as it sure seems a lot easier than implementing maildir support in Mozilla. :)
Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 07:47:49 UTC
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 6 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:46:10 UTC
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.
Comment 7 David Baron 2012-08-19 12:03:56 UTC
On Sunday 19 August 2012 03:46:10 Luigi Toscano wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95323
> 
> Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano@tiscali.it> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - CC|                            |luigi.toscano@tiscali.it
> Resolution|UNMAINTAINED                |WAITINGFORINFO
> 
> --- Comment #6 from Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano@tiscali.it> ---
> Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the
> wishlist is still valid for kmail2.

If still relevant, it would be still valid.
Comment 8 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 12:27:35 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)

> If still relevant, it would be still valid.

Given that the support for different account goes through akonadi and each account is a different resource, isn't this accomplished in kmail2? (this is a question/reminder to myself too :)