Thoughts on Akonadi confusion

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi Ian.

Sorry to read about your recent mess with Akonadi. For me things 
basically work, with pauses for over half a minute or more during POP3 
mail retrieval and other oddities, but it basically works. I still think 
Akonadi needs stability and performance work much more than feature 
work, but as I am neither developing on it myself or paying for the 
development, I can only hope that eventually someone who develops on 
Akonadi/KDEPIM sees a similar priority. In the current state Akonadi IMO 
is one of the most problematic parts within Plasma desktop and KDE 
application ecosystem.

Ian Douglas - 24.02.22, 13:15:49 CET:
> It seems like Akonadi has an internal list of "possible mail folders",
> probably with
> /home/ian/.local/share/.local-mail.directory/
> /home/ian/.local/share/local-mail/
> 
> And then on startup, asks the OS if they exist. Depending on which the
> drive returns first, Akonadi then decides that is where the mail is.

The maildir resource defines the maildir folder to use. Like in:

% grep Path .config/akonadi_maildir_resource_0rc
Path[$e]=$HOME/.local/share/local-mail

I just have one of them. So one folder. Whereby there also is

~/.local/share/.local-mail.directory/

but that is due to the way Akonadi maildir resource implements maildir 
access.

It could be that you have others like "akonadi_maildir_resource_1rc" or 
some other number. I never tried what would happen with more than one 
maildir resource. In principle I think it should work. Practically? Not 
so sure. Maybe an Akonadi/KDEPIM developer can clarify.

Best,
-- 
Martin