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Try Settings > Configure kmail > Appearance > Message List > Default Aggregation. A menu drops down. Perhaps the aggregation you're looking for is 'flat date view'? This is from kmail 1.13.5 but I think 1.12 was similar. Rod -- Rod Sheaff 'Dunsland', Barn Street, Liskeard, Kernow / Cornwall, PL14 4BL United Kingdom. E: rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx T: +44-(0)1579-345674 On Thursday 04 Nov 2010 08:46:19 george parker wrote: > I run KDE and have always liked it pre KDE 4. I have always used Kmail > with no complaints, tried others (evolution, thunderbird, outlook (sorry, > slipped in)) but always gone back to Kmail. In Kmail 1.9.9 your mails are > displayed in one long list which can be sorted by column, sender, date > etc. by a click on the header. > > In Kmail 1.12.4/KDE 4.3.4 the mails are sorted by date into groups such as > Today, Monday, Sunday, Last Week, October etc. Each group seems to be > treated as a separate entity so that it sorts by date, sender etc only > within each group. For instance, I can't click on sender and get all the > mails from Fred Bloggs listed back to the year dot. I can't find a way to > switch off this layout, or is there a way? > > I've looked at moving to Evolution or Sylpheed or Thunderbird but this > brings another problem. My mailboxes are configured as maildir (each mail > a separate file) and can be either that or mbox (one big file, or enormous > in my case with over 2000 mails). The 3 alternatives all seem to use mbox > which I'm reluctant to go to. Or can they be changed to maildir? > > I don't really like KDE 4 either. It now seems to get in the way rather > than help the flow of work, or is it just me. Maybe time for a change all > round, but I don't like Gnome either (sigh). > > George |
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