Gene Heskett wrote:

>> Another bit of info: mc see's the dot directories, and in exploring
>> for oddball trash, I found indice files that were not related to the
>> directory they were in and I deleted them all, then restarted kmail,
>> which of course complained about this "emc" directories indice file,
>> so I assume it would rebuild, then open kmails gui. But when it had
>> done so, there is not an indice file visible, so I am now wondering if
>> all these empty directories can be nuked.
>>
>> But before I do that, I'll restart kmail again to see if it now
>> complains about the emc directory.
> No, the restart was clean, no complaints. I'm going to get rid of the now
> empty dot directories next.

In general you are not supposed to work directly with the directories - use
the interface - this is my approach to kmail, but I also use kontact and
not kmail directly. My mail is on the mailserver(s) - I have setup also one
local and since then it is a blessing (dovecot IMAP - took me a while to
configure). I came across dbmail some years ago, but never had the chance
to try it myself - it looks even better than dovecot.

I don't know how you handle your mails and why you should have them
somewhere around.

An error I made many years ago is to mix up the directory where imap was
writing and where the local mails were written by kmail - if you have
something messing up in between could cause a lot of headache. Since I put
it right no issues, but also all mails go to exim/dovecot.

hope it helps