[Bug 278068] New: Outbox directory is no longer created, which causes an startup error for KMail

[Raymond Wooninck]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278068

           Summary: Outbox directory is no longer created, which causes an
                    startup error for KMail
           Product: Akonadi
           Version: 4.8
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Mail Dispatcher Agent
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: tittiatcoke at gmail.com
                CC: vkrause at kde.org


Version:           4.8 (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

In the last week I had some instability of Plasma-desktop and krunner. Both
issues seemed to be related to the connectivity to the calendar and contacts
data (Plasma-desktop crashed due to the digital clock plasmoid and krunner
crashed based on the contacts runner). 

I wiped out the full Akonadi setup for my local user (wiped the directories
$HOME/.local/share/akonadi, $HOME/.local/share/local-mail,
$HOME/.local/share/.local-mail.directory, $HOME/.config/akonadi and the akonadi
configuration files from $HOME/.kde4/share/config). 

I started akonadi through akonadictl startup and everything seemed to be fine.
Starting Kmail to define my email accounts however gave the error : "KMail
encountered a fatal error and will terminate now. The error was: Failed to
fetch the resource collection." 

Further checking learned that the directory
$HOME/.local/share/.local-mail.directory is missing and this would be the
outbox. The "local folders" resource is created fine
($HOME/.local/share/local-mail). 

Deleting the akonadi resources "Mail Dispatcher Agent" and "Local Folders" and
then to add them again, does not resolve the issue. 

I am currently using the latest git for KDE (including Akonadi-runtime and
kdepim), but talking to the openSUSE KDE Maintainers this problem also occurs
with KDE 4.7 rc2.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Setup Akonadi for the first-time. 

Actual Results:  
Missing outbox that causes KMail to crash

Expected Results:  
The folder that contains the outbox is created

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