kmail: Storage of messages in subfolders

[Rüdiger Härtel]

Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2017, 08:24:40 CET schrieb Volker Wysk:
> On Sunday, 1 January 2017 07:55:01 CET Rüdiger Härtel wrote:
> > On the file system there is no .mailing-lists.directory folder.
> > 
> > I repeated your step with the subfolder in drafts. Kmail does not create
> > the .drafts.directory folder on the filesystem. Then I copied an email
> > into the bla-folder (within kmail) just to see if the directory on the
> > filesystem is created only when needed. But still there is no
> > .drafts.direcotry folder in the filesystem.
> 
> That's odd.  Try this:
> 
> Settings -> Configure KMail -> Accounts -> Local Folders -> Modify.
> 
> This displays the path where your "local folders" are stored.


My "local folders" are in /home/hae/Mail.


> 
> > For what I know akonadi stores metadata not the real data. However from
> > what I see now I conclude this is not the case. So, is this an akonadi
> > issue then?
> 
> No, it shouldn't, since it works as expected on my machine.
> 
> PS: You need to delete your new "bla" folder in the file system, in order to
> get rid of it again. That's a KMail bug.
> 
> Bye,
> Volker