On Wednesday 24 Aug 2011 23:30:16 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Now I can't even reply to the several excellent answers already > received - I just watched kmail2 delete my entire gentoo-user folder. > > A thorough search of my home dir fails to reveal where mails are > hiding. I created a new Maildir (the real one, not that stupid mixed > KDE thing) in .kde4/share/apps/kmail/maildir and copied a bunch of > stuff there. It got moved per the kmail2 interface - the originals and > folders were no longer in the original place, they could be viewed in > the new maildir resource. > > But they could not be found on disk. And then, as I watched, the > entire folder tree was removed from the sidebar one folder at a time > leaving only the top-most folder. There is nothing on disk. > > It gets worse. I have a folder for work stuff, counting the total > column for each folder shows there are 6562 mails. find and wc on disk > returns 4049. So there are 2513 files not on disk that should be. > > I have no idea where they could be. > They are not in .local/share/.local-mail.directory/ > They are not in .kde4/share/apps/kmail/ > I do not find cache copies in /tmp or /var/tmp > I conclude that there must be copies in the mysql that akonadi uses (I > thought that was only for email metadata....) > But they have to be somewhere as kmail2 is showing them.
They say that kmail-2 has a completely different storage architecture ... Have you looked in the mysql tables to see what is hanging in there? (clutching at straws) > I also discovered that kmail2 doesn't do changing of IMAP folders at > all, it seems to be strictly read-only. I can create folders in that > area to my heary's content, nothing shows on disk. Kmail2 doesn't seem > to support server-side at all. I can create folders in claws easily > enough and they show up, but not the other way round. It doesn't seem > to be a delayed update either - 12 hours later is a bit too long for > that. My previous response was about Kmail-1. Kmail-2 should *not* be used according to one developer's blog (4 months old): https://thomasmcguire.wordpress.com/category/kmail/ I've seen quite a lot of complains about slowness and missing local folders like ... Inbox! when I googled for it. Good luck in getting your messages back. -- Regards, Mick
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