Akonadi server won't start

[David Jarvie]

On Thursday, 19 August 2021 12:21:03 BST Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 19. August 2021 01:35:05 CEST David Jarvie wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 17 August 2021 20:26:00 BST Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > WARNING: Switching the database will make Akonadi forget more or less
> > > everything. Make a backup before proceeding. If you have lots of filters
> > > configured, then export them before the switch. If you have mail stored
> > > in
> > > local folders, i.e. if you are not using IMAP exclusively, then you
> > > might
> > > also want to export those folders. Akonadi may not have written all
> > > local
> > > mail to local files so that some of those mails may only be stored in
> > > the
> > > database.
> > 
> > I've already encountered the issue which you describe, i.e. that after
> > moving mails from IMAP into local folders, no file is created in the
> > directory for that folder. I've tried copying instead of moving, but that
> > doesn't work either (unlike in older KDE PIM software).
> 
> Did you try copying single emails? This has always worked for me. IIRC, then
> moving individual emails and copying multiple emails also worked. Only
> moving multiple emails with a single operation didn't result in files
> written to disk in some older version of KMail. Dan fixed this problem
> quite some time ago. All of my observations apply to maildir folders in my
> Local Folders.
> 
> Which version are you using?

I copied just a single email. I didn't try copying multiple ones. However, I 
just tried again today and moved first one email, and then two emails; both 
worked successfully (i.e. the files were saved in the directory). I'll have to 
keep an eye on this.

I'm using kmail 5.15.3 (KDE 20.08.3) from the new Debian stable release.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer, KAlarm author.