using kontact and IMAP

[Derek Broughton]

David McGlone wrote:

> Hi All.
> 
> I am using IMAP with kontact and I want to remove the "local folders"
> inbox and templates folders and move the outbox, sent-mail, trash and
> drafts folders under the IMAP, is this possible?

Yes and no.  You can't remove "local folders", you _can_ put most of your
default special folders under the IMAP inbox.

Trash is configured under "Accounts" and "Sent", "Templates" and "Drafts"
are per-identity (also, for any folder or account, you can specify to keep
replies in the same folder as the message you reply to).  I'm fairly sure
you can't move the outbox (it really makes no sense, as your outbox should
be on your _local_ machine - though iirc, Dovecot actually has an option
for an outbox folder).

> 
> Also this isn't that important, but I have an "inbox" under both "local
> folders" and "IMAP" and all my mail goes to the inbox under IMAP, but some
> of them are falling through the cracks and ending up in my Inbox under
> "local folders", what could be causing this? I want all mail to go to the
> inbox under IMAP.

If your IMAP folder is remote, I'd say that isn't even possible.  If you're
running your own IMAP server, then it's a simple matter of something
delivering to ~/Mail/ rather than ~/Maildir/ - but it wouldn't be a kontact
issue.
-- 
derek