Where are local mails?

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi Vojtěch,

On Dienstag, 11. März 2025 12:16:30 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> Dne úterý 11. března 2025 12:04:23, středoevropský standardní čas, Ingo 
> Klöcker napsal(a):
> > On Dienstag, 11. März 2025 10:47:01 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
> > Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm bit confused. I set up IMAP folder in KMail, and from there I moved
> > > some mails to folder within local folders. That resource claims the mails
> > > are in /home/vojta/.local/share/local-mail/
> > > KMail as well as Akonadi Console claim there are 31 MB, but when I
> > > navigate
> > > to that folder, it just contain empty directories (default structure of
> > > Maildir), but in fact it's empty. So, where are the mails? Just in the
> > > Akonadi database? How do I enforce to save them into that Maildir? I wish
> > > to have them physically on disk, not just in the database.
> > 
> > It would be helpful if you would have told us which version of KMail you
> > are using. In an older version (> 2 years; probably much longer) ther
> > was a bug which caused KMail to move only one of the selected messages
> > to the local folder. The workaround back then was to copy the messages
> > and then delete them in the original folder.
> > It takes some time until the files/messages appear in the file system after
> > a move. The move seemingly happens very fast, but that's just the update
> > of the location in the database. The files are written to the file system
> > when a sync happens. I haven't moved larger amounts of mails to a local
> > folder so that's just what I remember. If the messages still don't appear
> > after some time then there may be a new bug.
> > Regards,
> > Ingo
> 
> Thank You and sorry, ma bad. I use openSUSE Tumbleweed, so typically newest 
> stable versions, here KMail 6.3.2 (24.12.2), Kf 6.11.0, Qt 6.8.2. I moved the 
> mails a least 10 days ago. I can access them, fine, I just wonder where they 
> are. :-)

Have a look at

  $HOME/.local/share/akonadi_maildir_resource_0

or a similar name.

Kind regards

Frank