kde 3.3 kmail woes

[mpalladi]

I've just upgraded to kde 3.3 from 3.2

1. When I compose a message, and send it, it loses the recipients and displays "undisclosed recipient". If I edit it in the outbox and re add the recipient, it sends ok. Is this a known bug ?

2. Kmail now works in the background, meaning even if I close it it automatically downloads mail at the specified check interval. I don't want this as I only want mail checking when I'm at home, it allows me to check in on my email using a webmail client when I'm at work. It used to work as a true client before, and only download when it was loaded up.
Is this a new feature of kmail, or kontact ?

In general, where can I find these new "features" I'm not talking about the change log, but is there a wiki or tutorial anywhere that steps users through the new feature set. What's the point if you can't educate the end user ?

Mark

[mondauge]

I do not know about your first question, but I can give you some advice to the second:

- Closing kmail using File->Quit should quit kmail instantly while clicking on the close button of the window moves kmail to the systray
- You can disable automatich mail checking in the configuration menu
- You can also configure kmail to not use the tray. Go to Settings->Configure Kmail and then to Appearance->System Tray and disable it there

HTH,
mondauge

[Bob Paddock]

When I start up KMail 1.7 there is no mail, no folders, no anything.
Only the KMail 1.7 welcome screen. If I go back to 3.2.x all of the mail
is still there.

How do I get 1.7 to see the existing mail base and filters?

[srlinuxx]

Bob, I think earlier kmails used .Mail as the directory to store your mail in and the latest uses Mail. I just make symlinks for both to my actual mail folder (on an older partition in my case). So, for you possibly do something like:
ln -s ~/.Mail ~/Mail

See if that's it....
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[Epyon]

[Bob Paddock]

I logged out and back in then the folders appeared, but many of the messages did not show up. It seems the indexes need to be rebuilt, but I don't know how to do that.

So what I did was tell KMail to search all folders for my email address, the searching seemed
to get all of the missing messages to show up.

[mpalladi]

Yes I had a similar problem, but it was just a display setting, right click on the folder bar to adjust the visible columns. That sorted it out for me anyway. My mail was already in ~/Mail, so that wasn't a problem

Mark