[Users] I'm whupped by kmail

[Steve Litt]

Hi Gene,

This isn't responsive to your exact questions, but it just might be
responsive to the result you're looking for:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm

As an added benefit, if a future Claws-Mail version ever screws up as
badly as Kmail did with its Kmail2 abomination, then if you do what the
preceding document says, replacing your email client will be trivial.

HTH,

SteveT

Steve Litt                *  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:07:22 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> Greetings;
> 
> kmail has been my preferred mail agent since 14 years ago, but I have
> not been able to make it start on a ubu-12.4.2 install.
> 
> So, claws seems the next logical step, I've read lots of good "press"
> about it, and I've wasted 10 days on kmail now.
> 
> But, I see claws is mbox format only, an acronym I am told for a
> merged "mailfile".
> 
> And it has no facility to import a maildir, which I have about 40
> of. However the original kmail inbox is a mailfile, and while it
> shows 1 unread message in the claws left panel, it will not show me
> the message itself.
> 
> This inbox file, in a du -h format report, is 2.1 Gb, and the whole
> ~Mail tree is about 4.5 Gb, but that 2.1Gb inbox means its very close
> to falling over on a 32 bit install, and has done so before, forcing
> me to go thru it by hand nuking the obvious spam etc.
> 
> This leads to the first question:  What is the maximum mbox format
> file that claws-mail can handle on a 64 bit install?
> 
> kmail apparently doesn't have an export function, so:
> 
> Is it possible to do something like create a tempdir, and then step
> through the cur dirs, doing a "cat * > temdir/foldername" to create
> the merged files, and then import that into claws-mail?
> 
> Or is there another such mail merging utility that would do that
> better than a simple cat *?
> 
> 3 questions, sorry.
> 
> Cheers, Gene