Re: Where are local mails?

Vojtěch Zeisek <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:16:30 +0100

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Hello

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. :-)
Sincerely,
V.

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