[kdepim-users] Message disappear after moving it to another folder

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2012 schrieb O. Sinclair:
> On 30/05/12 18:51, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 27. Mai 2012 schrieb Bepi:
> >> Hi,
> > 
> > Hi Bepi,
> > 
> >> I've just lost one message (out of ~12) I moved from Sent Items to a
> >> local folder.  The particulars of that message were that it had
> >> attached two pictures of ~1.5MB each.
> >> 
> >> I have looked into ~/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data/ and it is
> >> not there, although there are 86 files in that folder.
> > 
> > file_db_data is only a cache.
> > 
> >> This is not the first time I lose messages moving them.  It has been
> >> a very rough time from the upgrade to kmail2.  The migration was
> >> really painful.
> > 
> > If a message is not in there it does not mean that it has been lost.
> > 
> > Its important to look whether its still in the resource where it came
> > from. I.e. on the IMAP server or the POP 3 maildir resource for
> > example.
> > 
> > Ciao,
> 
> Hmm. NOO - we should not have to check the originating servers for
> emails. I am only using pop3 and I SHOULD be able to confidently tell
> KMail to not leave mail on server and STILL know it does not go
> missing.

You can say "we should not" and deny the current situation as long as you 
want.

If you really want to see whether the mail is still there, you would have 
to look at its storage location.

Thats the design nature of Akonadi as well as the old index files in KMail 
- they are just a cache. Its that easy and even with KMail 1 I had it at 
times - quite some time ago - that the index files did not represent 
exactly what really was there in the Maildir.

If Akonadi is absolutely reliable, then it represents whats on storage at 
all times - minus some delay for updating the cache. When you miss a mail 
that should be there, it obviously isn´t up to date and then you have to 
check in the underlying storage location. No denying of reality will 
change this.

-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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