[SOLVED] Kmail not reflecting contents of ~/mail (maildir)

[Ianseeks]

On Thursday, 2 August 2018 18:55:56 BST Maurice wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:55:14 +0000, I wrote:
> 
> > something in /home/me  is now preventing kmail from properly reflecting
> > the contents of ~/mail any more.
> > 
> > The $64 question is: How to find the culprit?!
> 
> Added a folder with odd name, then did search for  that name in ~/.
> 
> Name appeared in ~/.mail.directory,  which somehow Kmail was somehow 
> regarding as ~/mail!
> 
> Renamed ~/mail to ~/.mail.directory and Kmail soon picked that up and 
> eventually displayed all the missing subfolders and contents!
> 
> $64: 
> Why did Kmail suddenly decide to change to ~/.mail.directory instead 
> of ~./mail (despite it still declaring under /Configure/Local Folders 
> that 
> the maildir files were in ~/mail)?
> 
> 
Great that you've solved the issue.  As a result of your discovery I thought i'd better check my folders too.

I've got a "/home/XX/.local/share/local-mail" (as per kmail config for Local Folders) which as a few old folders in it  plus standard ones like inbox and all the folders are empty and "/home/XX/.local/share/.local-mail.directory" where all the mail folders and mails are actually resident.

Both ~/local-mail and ~/.local-mail.directory have Inbox folders that are completely empty but the view inside kmail shows me a lot of emails in the Inbox. 

I'm not sure i understand this kmail directory structure anymore

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