Re: [SOLVED] Kmail not reflecting contents of ~/mail (maildir)

On Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:58:37 BST Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Freitag, 3. August 2018 09:34:45 CEST Ianseeks wrote:
> > I've got a "/home/XX/.local/share/local-mail" (as per kmail config for Local
> > Folders) which as a few old folders in it  plus standard ones like inbox
> > and all the folders are empty and
> > "/home/XX/.local/share/.local-mail.directory" where all the mail folders
> > and mails are actually resident.
> > 
> > Both ~/local-mail and ~/.local-mail.directory have Inbox folders that are
> > completely empty but the view inside kmail shows me a lot of emails in the
> > Inbox.
> > 
> > I'm not sure i understand this kmail directory structure anymore
> 
> It's possible that KMail failed to write the emails to those (file system) 
> folders. In this case the emails are only stored in the database KMail uses 
> for faster access (as cache). You could try to copy those emails from your 
> Inbox to a different folder with KMail and then see if they appear somewhere 
> inside ~/local-mail or ~/.local-mail.directory.
> 
Thanks, i'll give that a go

> Regards,
> Ingo
> 


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