Kmail not reflecting contents of ~/mail (maildir)

[Ianseeks]

On Sunday, 29 July 2018 14:24:46 BST Maurice wrote:
> The problem is although my (maildir) ~/mail database contains an 
> .inbox.directory of around 20 sub-folders, Kmail now fails to show ANY of 
> them, even shows an empty Sent folder, and fails to show any Inbox emails 
> older than the date after which I became aware of the problem, and now 
> fails to download any emails.

Does kmail point to your mail folder directory?  My local folders config points to /home/xxxx/.local/share/local-mail  

>   N.B. I have temporarily migrated to Thunderbird for email purposes.
> 
> Presumably there is an Akonadi/Baloo mixup somewhere, and I ask if anyone 
> can here vrecommend a way of achieving re-indexing of the files in ~/
> mail, 
> please.
This might resolve itself if kmail "finds" you mail folders.

> 
> [I don't think it's a Kmail problem, as with another user on the system 
> it is behaving normally.)
> 
> 


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