Re: Local mail folders not found

On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 12:10:03 PM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Sunday, 2014-03-02, 21:51:54, Peter wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 11:15:52 AM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 2014-02-27, 15:58:08, Peter wrote:
> > > > Now I can't see the local mail folders. This is in KMail version
> > > > 4.9.5.
> > > > I'm
> > > > only setting this up temporarily, only a few emails. I have sent and
> > > > received various emails todays, and I can see them under
> > > > 
> > > > /.local/share/.local-mail         path
> > > > 
> > > > and that is what is specified under the settings, in confgure KMail.
> > > > 
> > > > However, when I enter KMail, it goes and creates ew folders for
> > > > sent-mail
> > > > and outbox under this path
> > > > 
> > > > /.local/share/.local-mail.directory
> > > > 
> > > > and so I can't see the emails from today, just 2 empty folders.
> > > > 
> > > > Why is KMail appending ".directory" to what is specified in the config
> > > > settings ?
> > > 
> > > The .directory is where the sub folders are.
> > > 
> > > E.g. if you have a mail folder structure like the following in KMail
> > > 
> > > Mailinglists
> > > 
> > >     kdepim-users
> > > 
> > > Then on the file system this looks like this
> > > 
> > > Mailinglists
> > > Mailinglists/cur
> > > .Mailinglists.directory
> > > .Mailinglists.directory.kdepim-users
> > > .Mailinglists.directory.kdepim-users/cur
> > > 
> > > The "cur" directories is where each folders email is.
> > 
> > The directory structure sems a little bit different from Kubuntu a few
> > years ago ??
> 
> The base directory may be different, but the general structure has been
> around for many years.

I have been using $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail for a few years.

> Initially the base directory used to be $HOME/Mail, however some
> distributions patched the code to make that $HOME/.Mail (e.g. Mandrake
> IIRC).
> Later versions used $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail as the base path.
> 
> With the advent of cross-desktop locations such as $HOME/.local/share (also
> known as $XDG_DATA_HOME), newer versions used that as the base path's
> prefix.

Well I'm using KMail 4.11.5 , and every time I tried putting the mail location 
as $HOME/.local/share/local-mail , KMail would go put the mail in 
$HOME/.local/share/local-mail.directory

(I had previously reported the path as $HOME/.local/share/.local-
mail.directory , and that was reported incorrectly)

> > > In your case I am not totally sure where that .local-mail directory
> > > comes
> > > from, here it is called local-mail (without the leading dot).
> > 
> > When you stated "without the dot" I wondered if doing my maildirs in a
> > hidden folder was complicating things. For example if I had
> > 
> > ~/.local/share/local-mail
> > 
> > in the config, KMail kept putting (appending) ".directory" to what was in
> > the config. I even tested this at different levels within ~/.local
> 
> The config holds the path of the "top level" folder. As I explained above
> all its sub folders go into the .directory tree. Each sub sub folder into
> their respective parent's .directory and so on.
> 
> > So, back to the hidden path/file. I added a folder ..
> > 
> > ~/Mail
> > 
> > in the KMail config and it worked just fine. So, thanks very much for your
> > help, you have solved the problem for me.  :D
> 
> Ah, so you must have had one of those older setups :)
> 
> > Now, I'm "importing" by simply copying folders into ~/Mail and sub paths.
> > I'm sure that will work now. How do I ensure that the akonadi db and other
> > files associated with it, is in sync with my folders. Is there a command
> > to
> > wipe the db and have it search through the folders to reload or similar ?
> 
> The maildir backend handler (resource) should do that automatically.

Okay thanks, good to know the database is in sync with the folder content.

Regards,

Peter

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