Re: Location of POP emails

On Tuesday 18 Jun 2013 15:53:46 Jörg Schaible wrote:
> ianseeks wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm trying to locate where my emails are held.
> > 
> > I've read http://blogs.kde.org/node/4503 ( Akonadi misconception #1: where
> > is my data?) and it states the following "In case of POP3, the mails is
> > stored immediately after download in a local maildir folder. The actual
> > place of the folder depends on your configuration, it can be just as
> > $HOME/Mail, as $HOME/kde./share/apps/kmail/ or
> > $HOME/.local/share/.local-mail (for new installations)."
> > It also says "To make it clear from the beginning: the Akonadi database is
> > NOT
> > your MAIN data storage.  Even if it gets destroyed, removed, your data is
> > still safe."
> > 
> > On my opensuse 12.3 Kde/Kmail 4.10.4 system I have the following situation
> > 
> > 1.  $HOME/Mail - Does not exist
> > 2.  $HOME/kde./share/apps/kmail/ - I actually have
> > $HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kmail2/ which only has an "autosave" folder, "rc"
> > files and a lock file
> > 3.  $HOME/.local/share/.local-mail - I have
> > "$HOME/.local/share/local-mail/"
> > with 3 empty folders, "cur", "tmp" & "new".  This "$HOME/.local/share/"
> > also has an "akonadi" folder with various "db" folders.
> > 
> > Thie blog is dates 13 Nov 2011 so i guess it may be really old
> > information.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> $HOME/.local/share/local-mail/
> $HOME/.local/share/.local-mail.directory/
damn, completely missed this one " $HOME/.local/share/.local-mail.directory/"
> KMail has a bogus local directory layout, but the pattern for subfolders is
> at least consistent.
thanks

> - Jörg
> 
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