Still trying to get kmail-5 to work on bullseye

[gene]

Greetings all;

I'm still trying to make kmail-5  read the mail.

See <https://imgur.com/4KvXryb.png>

for a view of my folder panel.

Obviously I've 2 local receive set ups, trying to find one that works.
I started the day with 200+ messages in local folders->inbox, and
have managed to ctl+j them into the various directory's you can see.

I've no idea at this point which of the 2 rx profiles it used to access those
200+ msgs and put them away. There is no logical connection between the
location and the names inbox and gene, and the only diff is one is set for 
.Maildir and the other is set for
Maildir, but the only directory that actually has mail in it right now, is 
actually named ~/.Maildir.directory
What I do know is that it has:
gene at coyote:~$ ls -lR .Maildir.directory/ |wc -l
369, not the 409 kmail seems to think is there, total msgs and subdirs in it, 
its broken as far as KMAIL is concerned, and any attempt to read and sort it 
is rejected because its read only because of some error it does not bother to 
define in the popup that fades is 5 seconds.

The even odder part is that I can select one of those msgs, read it, and reply
to it.

Some of those msgs could be usefull so I'd druther not just blow that whole
tree away.

An ls lR down to one of the directories:

gene at coyote:~$ ls -lR .Maildir.directory/
.Maildir.directory/:
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 16:56 Bruce
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 16:11 drafts
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 17:51 fail2ban
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 17:44 geda
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 16:11 inbox
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 16:56 Linda
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 17:38 linux-rt
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 17:35 nut
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 16:51 OpenSCAD
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 16:11 outbox
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 16:11 sent-mail
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 16:11 templates
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 16:11 trash
drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 18:07 xorg

.Maildir.directory/Bruce:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 16:56 cur
drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 19:22 new
drwxr-xr-x 2 gene gene 4096 Dec 13 19:22 tmp

.Maildir.directory/Bruce/cur:
total 0

.Maildir.directory/Bruce/new:
total 2800 <--what the hell? there are about 20 msgs total in this subdir.
-rw------- 1 gene gene   4613 Dec 13 17:46 1638975528.390484_2.coyote:2,S
-rw------- 1 gene gene 991941 Dec 13 17:00 1638975643.415729_0.coyote:2,S
-rw------- 1 gene gene   3240 Dec 13 17:06 1638975744.438161_2.coyote:2,RS
-rw------- 1 gene gene   6427 Dec 13 17:41 1638975768.443430_2.coyote:2,RS
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 442423 Dec 13 18:21 1639437671249.R119.coyote
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 442423 Dec 13 18:31 1639438303332.R832.coyote
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene   2984 Dec 13 18:52 1639439530298.R160.coyote
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene   3103 Dec 13 18:52 1639439531562.R876.coyote

Not the whole thing of coarse, but are those the correct type of files one
should find in that name of a directory?

Thanks for any clues.

Cheers, Gene
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