said Gene Heskett:
| So if your kmail is acting likes its infected with flooby dust, see what
| happens if you do a bit of housecleaning in your ~/Mail subdir. I think
| it was getting confused over encountering strange file names.
|
| Time will tell the truth of this tail of course.
I recently imported a ton of messages -- ~20,000 -- into KMail, where I
store decades of mail in a nice, normal maildir format because it seems
both the closest to standard and the least likely to get corrupted of the
mail formats. With help from this list, I was able to import the last
15,000 or so by making a directory in the mail tree and copying the old
files (from OS/2's MR/2-ICE, which used something like maildir except that
maildir hadn't been invented yet), then let KMail index them when I
reopened it. (Yes, I backed up my ~/Mail first!) It went surprisingly
well.
(For the first 5,000 or so messages I tried to import via the Lotus Notes
KMail filter, which worked well enough but put each message in its own
subdirectory. If you want to see KMail get really slow, try having 5,000
separate subfolders.)
Re. the subject, KMail won't put foibles inline (unless, I guess, you're
using html), but they work fine as attachments. I've had many attached
foibles in KMail over the years.<g>
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