Fatal Kmail error after upgrade

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Montag, 16. August 2021 02:46:25 CEST David Jarvie wrote:
> On 15 August 2021 22:10:46 BST, David Jarvie <djarvie at kde.org> wrote:
> > I'm upgrading an old system running KDE 4.14, to 20.08. The mail is stored
> > in ~/Mail (which is where I want to it to remain). After a lot of messing
> > about, I finally discovered the Akonadi Maildir resource which showed the
> > mail folder structure under ~/Mail. I then deleted the default Local
> > Folders resource, since it had no obvious use alongside the Maildir
> > resource.
> >
[...]
> 
> However, I've tried lots of Maildir and Local Folders resource
> configurations, but I just can't get my existing mail folders in ~/Mail to
> be seen again. All I see are the default Local Folders, despite the config
> pointing to ~/Mail where there is no .local-mail.directory folder.

I think you need to use a "KMail Mail Folder" resource (I'm using 21.04; in 
the past this was called "Mixed something") even if all of your folders are 
maildir folders. On my desktop machine I'm still using ~/Mail, but I cannot 
look at my configuration before the end of next week.

Regards,
Ingo
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