[kdepim-users] kmail and the folders

[Martin (KDE)]

Am 31.12.2011 22:10, schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> On Saturday 31 December 2011, Martin (KDE) wrote:
>> Am 31.12.2011 18:48, schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
>>> On Saturday 31 December 2011, Martin (KDE) wrote:
>>>> Am Samstag, 31. Dezember 2011, 18:08:56 schrieb Martin:
>>>>> Hallo
>>>>>
>>>>> I recently moved from one 32 bit system to my new 64 bit system.
>>>>> As I use a centralised home system Installation was not that
>>>>> complicated, but kmail made a mess out of my folder
>>>>> configuration (all in one single online imap server).
>>>>>
>>>>> So I took the chance and a look into kmail2rc file. There are
>>>>> many folder based configurations like:
>>>>>
>>>>> [Folder-22]
>>>>> ExpireAction=Delete
>>>>> ExpireMessages=false
>>>>> ExpireToFolder=
>>>>> HideInSelectionDialog=false
>>>>> IgnoreNewMail=false
>>>>> MailingListArchiveAddress=
>>>>> MailingListEnabled=false
>>>>> MailingListFeatures=0
>>>>> MailingListHandler=0
>>>>> MailingListHelpAddress=
>>>>> MailingListId=
>>>>> MailingListOwnerAddress=
>>>>> MailingListPostingAddress=
>>>>> MailingListSubscribeAddress=
>>>>> MailingListUnsubscribeAddress=
>>>>> PutRepliesInSameFolder=false
>>>>> ReadExpireAge=3
>>>>> ReadExpireUnits=3
>>>>> UnreadExpireAge=12
>>>>> UnreadExpireUnits=0
>>>>> UseDefaultIdentity=true
>>>>> htmlLoadExternalOverride=false
>>>>> htmlMailOverride=false
>>>>>
>>>>> But what is missing: which folder does this configuration belong
>>>>> to? Wher do I get the folder name from this configuration belongs
>>>>> to?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, now the configuration for my previous digikam-user
>>>>> mailinglist folder (was Folder-99) now belongs to my kde
>>>>> announcement folder.
>>>>>
>>>>> Last time I had such a mess I lost mails due to wrongly assign a
>>>>> mailing list folder with expiration set to my sent folder.
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't this a little bit risky to assign completely unrelated
>>>>> configuration to folders they don't belong to? I have to check if
>>>>> there are mails missing in all my sub folders.
>>>
>>> Yes. This has already been discussed in a recent thread.
>>> Apparently, the numbers of the folders correspond to UIDs of those
>>> folders in Akonadi. The problem here is that those UIDs are only
>>> unique as long as the Akonadi database exists.
>>>
>>> Two solutions were discussed in this thread:
>>> - Move folder specific settings to Akonadi. This way they can never
>>> be used for a wrong folder.
>>> - Use some kind of UUID for identifying the folders.
>>
>> So no need of reporting a bug?
> 
> I'm not sure whether a bug was reported for this, but it also concerned 
> expiration settings being applied to wrong folders.
> 
> 
>>>> So, setting delete on expiration is definitely a bad idea if you
>>>> plan to move your mail base around. I lost many mails (thanks to
>>>> backup not permanently). I don't know why this happened, why
>>>> kmail set expiration to the wrong folders. I have to file a bug
>>>> on this issue then.
>>>
>>> I guess you've deleted Akonadi's database which caused the loss of
>>> the folders' UIDs. Unfortunately, KMail did not take care of
>>> removing the now invalid folder settings. Did you re-add the mail
>>> accounts from within KMail? Or did you re-add corresponding
>>> Akonadi resources without KMail's help?
>>
>> Hm, I did none of them. I sync my home folder except of the akonadi
>> DB from the server (takes to long to sync). As this is a new
>> computer there was no akonadi DB, but the akonadi configuration was
>> synced.
>>
>> So, as I think about it, I "deleted" the akonadi DB.
>>
>> This lead me to another question: shall I sync my akonadi DB as well?
> 
> Yes. Currently, the necessary information is stored partially in the 
> Akonadi database and partially in config files. If those two get out-of-
> sync all kinds of problems may occur. (This situation is not ideal, but 
> that's how it is.)

Ok, thanks for that. I will adjust my sync routine.

And: Happy new year

Martin

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
> 
> 
> 
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