[kdepim-users] Local mail folders not found

[Peter]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 11:15:52 AM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday, 2014-02-27, 15:58:08, Peter wrote:
> > Now I can't see the local mail folders. This is in KMail version 4.9.5.
> > I'm
> > only setting this up temporarily, only a few emails. I have sent and
> > received various emails todays, and I can see them under
> > 
> > /.local/share/.local-mail         path
> > 
> > and that is what is specified under the settings, in confgure KMail.
> > 
> > However, when I enter KMail, it goes and creates ew folders for sent-mail
> > and outbox under this path
> > 
> > /.local/share/.local-mail.directory
> > 
> > and so I can't see the emails from today, just 2 empty folders.
> > 
> > Why is KMail appending ".directory" to what is specified in the config
> > settings ?
> 
> The .directory is where the sub folders are.
> 
> E.g. if you have a mail folder structure like the following in KMail
> 
> Mailinglists
>     kdepim-users
> 
> Then on the file system this looks like this
> 
> Mailinglists
> Mailinglists/cur
> .Mailinglists.directory
> .Mailinglists.directory.kdepim-users
> .Mailinglists.directory.kdepim-users/cur
> 
> The "cur" directories is where each folders email is.

The directory structure sems a little bit different from Kubuntu a few years 
ago ??

> In your case I am not totally sure where that .local-mail directory comes
> from, here it is called local-mail (without the leading dot).

When you stated "without the dot" I wondered if doing my maildirs in a hidden 
folder was complicating things. For example if I had

~/.local/share/local-mail

in the config, KMail kept putting (appending) ".directory" to what was in the 
config. I even tested this at different levels within ~/.local

So, back to the hidden path/file. I added a folder ..

~/Mail

in the KMail config and it worked just fine. So, thanks very much for your help, 
you have solved the problem for me.  :D

Now, I'm "importing" by simply copying folders into ~/Mail and sub paths. I'm 
sure that will work now. How do I ensure that the akonadi db and other files 
associated with it, is in sync with my folders. Is there a command to wipe the 
db and have it search through the folders to reload or similar ?

Regards,

Peter
 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
_______________________________________________
KDE PIM users mailing list
Subscription management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users