I've postfix set up on my system that delivers mail to me in /var/mail/karthikp, an mbox file. Previously, in kmail, I'd set this up as an incomming mail account and kmail handled this nicely by creating a maildir set up and importing mail from the mbox file.

With the new akonadi-based kmail, I don't know how to tell it to import mail from the mbox file into the Local Folders resource. As a result, I can't mark system emails as read. Every time I receive a new email, the mbox file gets updated and all the mails there get marked as unread all over again.

So, my question is this — is it possible for akonadi to import mail from the mbox file and into the "Local Folders" maildir resource? Is there any other way to emulate the old behavior?

[My current hack-ish solution is to drag emails from the mbox resource into Local Folders/inbox and mark them as read.]

Local Folders is a pure maildir storage, there is an mbox storage handler for work on single mbox files.

There is currently a bug in that handler though which triggers this metadata discarding you are experimenting

Someone is already working on solving it but I don't know any ETA. Hopefully soon.

Cheers,
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Ideally, it would be nice if by default, "Local Folders" would automagically handle your system mail from /var/spool/mail/ or wherever the default mail location is supposed to be.

Good to know that the current behavior is the result of a bug and not by design.

Thanks!

Is there any changes in this topic ?

I am using kde 4.7.3 and still cannot normally handle mails from /var/spool/mail