[Kde-pim] retrieving a resource from an akonadi:/ url

[Jos van den Oever]

On Sunday 03 July 2016 13:53:48 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > I've written function createMailDirPath (see attachment) to obtain the
> > file
> > path from the concatenated Akonadi::Item::remoteId() values.
> > This works great. I'm doing this instead of using the raw data from
> > akonadi
> > because I noticed that the bytearray returned from akonadi is not exactly
> > the same as the contents of the file in the maildir.
> 
> This is actually interesting, fetching the full payload should just fetch
> the mail.
> Even if the parsing and serialization that happens in the resource somehow
> modifies the content, it should always be the same modification, i.e.
> fetching the same mail should always result in the same byte array.
> 
> Are those mails stored through Akonadi or is a different process creating
> the file inside the maildir tree?

The mail is retrieved from a pop3 account by fetchmail [1]. KMail/Akonadi 
knows about the maildir directory via the maildir resource. So the mail is not 
stored through Akonadi.

Cheers,
Jos

[1] This is followed by a 'git commit'. I store my mails in git.

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