So I think I found my new mails...

[Ian Douglas]

On Saturday, 24 March 2018 5:48:31 PM SAST Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> What puzzles me tough is: Why on earth could Akonadi not write back the
> mails to the maildir? I have also some items without RID, and I don´t know
> why it could not have been able to stuff those mails into the maildir. I
> understand this with an IMAP account + broken network connection, but not
> with local mail. Unless you had a filesystem full condition or so.

This situation has only been since the last big update late January (I'm on 
Gentoo, mostly "stable", so that may not have been what other distros or the 
devs themselves are using).

Disk space is not an issue.

/dev/md1  1.8T  1.6T  183G  90% /home

If I understand you correctly, these are Akonadi 'copies', but when I open 
recent messages in Kmail then it opens, so somehow Kmail/Akonadi is using 
these files. They are certainly not in the prior maildir folders.
And if I try to open old messages, it fails ... which means Kmail/Akonadi is 
NOT trying to find the messages in the maildirs. Or it lost the info as to 
where they are. 

Possibility:

If I remember correctly (regret am not 100% certain on this), the last update 
renamed my "Local Folders" to "Local Folders (	Offline)", and created a NEW 
"Local Folders" with some default folders (Inbox, outbox, sent-mail, trash, 
etc) started putting incoming mail in THIS Inbox). 

The update itself was a major disaster and I had to recreate all my accounts, 
and tell it where to put the mail that came in.

I think possibly all my maildir folders should maybe now be under "Local 
Folders" rather than "Local Folders (Offline)", and then Akonadi will put the 
messages in the correct place.

As a user/programmer it seems to me that IMAP and POP3 code/logic got 
intermingled/integrated or something.

eg at the moment, incoming mail for this account goes to:
Local Folders/ZTI/Inbox

but should maybe go to 
Local Folders (Offline)/ZTI/Inbox 
??

Part of the problem is that this is a "logical" construct rather than a 
physical path on disk. Where's the mapping between this and disk?

Using the "select folder" dialogue in Kmail account settings shows two "Local 
Folders" ... the "offline" one has my maildir structure, while the newly 
created "Local Folders" is greyed out but has the few new folders mentioned 
above. So from a user point of view, I'm selecting the correct destination.

Thanks, Ian




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